{"id":983,"date":"2003-07-17T18:54:28","date_gmt":"2003-07-18T02:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=983"},"modified":"2005-10-29T20:22:24","modified_gmt":"2005-10-30T04:22:24","slug":"metaphor-is-where-you-find-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"metaphor is where you find it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/darkblogules.blogspot.com\/2003_05_01_darkblogules_archive.html#95055847>Angie Schultz<\/a> calls my attention to <a href=http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/03\/0503\/052303.html>James Lileks on Star Trek<\/a>.  I have to disagree with him on this point: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> [The Borg] were joyless cyborgs intent on crushing all cultural differences.  They were the Republicans! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The Borg are utterly egalitarian, and utterly conformist in the name of diversity (&#8220;We will add your uniqueness to our own&#8221;); seems to me there&#8217;s another gang of thieves who fit the metaphor slightly better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angie Schultz calls my attention to James Lileks on Star Trek. I have to disagree with him on this point: [The Borg] were joyless cyborgs intent on crushing all cultural differences. They were the Republicans! The Borg are utterly egalitarian, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=983\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}