{"id":1656,"date":"2017-11-09T21:46:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T21:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2017-11-09T21:46:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T21:46:11","slug":"soothsayer-in-the-hills-sees-silicon-valleys-sinister-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/09\/soothsayer-in-the-hills-sees-silicon-valleys-sinister-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Soothsayer in the Hills Sees Silicon Valley\u2019s Sinister Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As I get ready to leave, the grand illusionist offers an intriguing theory about why the internet is more obsessed with cats than dogs.\u201cI think we know that Facebook is turning us into trained dogs,\u201d he says. \u201cWe know we\u2019re being trained. We can feel ourselves being turned into trained circus animals. And we long for that independence that cats show. So when you look at a cat video, what you\u2019re really seeing is this receding identity that you want to cling to and find again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/08\/style\/jaron-lanier-new-memoir.html\">Soothsayer in the Hills Sees Silicon Valley\u2019s Sinister Side &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I get ready to leave, the grand illusionist offers an intriguing theory about why the internet is more obsessed with cats than dogs.\u201cI think we know that Facebook is turning us into trained dogs,\u201d he says. \u201cWe know we\u2019re being trained. We can feel ourselves being turned into trained circus animals. And we long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}