{"id":4877,"date":"2017-08-04T17:15:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T21:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2021-10-27T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T18:07:53","slug":"william-gibson-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/william-gibson-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"William Gibson Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2017\/08\/william-gibson-archangel-apocalypses-dystopias.html\">William Gibson Talks \u2018Archangel,\u2019 Apocalypses, and Dystopias<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Much of the planet\u2019s human population, today, lives in conditions that many inhabitants of North America would regard as dystopian. Quite a few citizens of the United States live under conditions that many people would regard as dystopian. Dystopia is not very evenly distributed. Fantasy is fun, but naturalism is the necessary balance \u2014 realism, to be less precise. Naturalistic fiction written today is necessarily fairly pessimistic \u2014 otherwise, it wouldn\u2019t be a realistic depiction of the present. If you were, say, a tiger, and you knew what\u2019s about to happen to your species (extinction, almost certainly), wouldn\u2019t it be realistic to have a pessimistic view of things? I think it\u2019s realistic, as a human, to have a pessimistic view of a world minus tigers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Q: How do you maintain hope in these dark times?<br \/>\n    A: One day at a time, and treasuring  those who retain an active sense of humor.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Gibson Talks \u2018Archangel,\u2019 Apocalypses, and Dystopias Much of the planet\u2019s human population, today, lives in conditions that many inhabitants of North America would regard as dystopian. Quite a few citizens of the United States live under conditions that many people would regard as dystopian. Dystopia is not very evenly distributed. Fantasy is fun, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[286],"tags":[815,1191,283,1190],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-shared","tag-dystopia","tag-hope","tag-interview","tag-william-gibson","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4880,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions\/4880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}