{"id":800,"date":"2008-11-05T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/?p=800"},"modified":"2008-11-05T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T19:18:00","slug":"rip-michael-crichton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/800","title":{"rendered":"RIP Michael Crichton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read almost everything <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/crichtonmichael\">Michael Crichton<\/a> wrote,   in junior high, high school, and college. I even read his autobiography, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/57295\">Travels<\/a>, which is about as close to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/3320466\">The Celestine Prophecy<\/a> as I&#8217;ve seen. (Who knew dude had a transcendent conversation with a cactus?)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I grew out of Crichton&#8217;s books. I don&#8217;t mean to make that sound like his writing is for younger people &#8211; I just read so much of his that I couldn&#8217;t read any more (same with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/peterselizabeth\">Elizabeth Peters\/Barbara Michaels<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/beatonmc\">M.C.Beaton<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Books can be like blinders, ushering you though time not with guidance, but with an alternate place to be &#8211; to be comfortable. Crichton did this for me, and so I&#8217;m a little bit sad today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read almost everything Michael Crichton wrote, in junior high, high school, and college. I even read his autobiography, Travels, which is about as close to The Celestine Prophecy as I&#8217;ve seen. (Who knew dude had a transcendent conversation with a cactus?) Anyway, I grew out of Crichton&#8217;s books. I don&#8217;t mean to make that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,93,92,91],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine","tag-books","tag-death","tag-michael-crichton","tag-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}