{"id":137,"date":"2006-12-27T15:18:52","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T05:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2008-09-16T16:15:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T06:15:11","slug":"ghosts-in-the-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts in the Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back at the end of October I was in Japan for work. One morning I was reading one of the English language newspapers over breakfast when I came across a story written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/\">Neil Gaiman<\/a> for Halloween. I&#8217;ve enjoyed a number of his novels and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandman_%28Vertigo%29\">Sandman<\/a> is one of my fave graphic novels, so I ripped it out of the paper, intending to read it on the flight home.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I never did, and while sorting out my expense claims today I came across the article tucked in amongst various receipts. I read it tonight and loved it. It&#8217;s an odd mixture of seemingly non-fiction memories of childhood Halloween nights, mixed in with mini-fictions. The story of the suicidal blogger gave me a chill, and it&#8217;s only a few paragraphs long.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve searched around tonight and I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/31\/opinion\/31gaiman.html?ei=5090&amp;en=936cc44f65110fa8&amp;ex=1319950800&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;adxnnlx=1162787011-niuN5dZxZ+PmgM1uPjUFcg\">this link<\/a> should work without requiring you to login. It&#8217;ll only take you a few minutes to read, but I recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back at the end of October I was in Japan for work. One morning I was reading one of the English language newspapers over breakfast when I came across a story written by Neil Gaiman for Halloween. I&#8217;ve enjoyed a number of his novels and Sandman is one of my fave graphic novels, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}