{"id":8185,"date":"2015-04-17T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8185"},"modified":"2015-04-17T11:20:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T15:20:49","slug":"review-the-man-in-the-high-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2015\/04\/17\/review-the-man-in-the-high-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Man in the High Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/216363\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1385189684m\/216363.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Man in the High Castle\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/216363\">The Man in the High Castle<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4764\">Philip K. Dick<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1178887545\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      PKD writes about my favorite topic which is how we perceive reality. What is real? Can we actually tell? I may need to read more of his books.<\/p>\n<p>Sensation and Perception was my favorite class doing my Psychology major. Well, some days I say it was Tests and Measurements. (Probably the ones where I do something involving tests.) Let&#8217;s call it a tie. S&amp;P covers the mechanics and functionality of the senses, how the brain works with them, and best of all: how to exploit the failings of them.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of an alternate reality where perhaps the Axis Powers won World War II found me intrigued. While what if realities are done quite a bit in science fiction, I enjoyed PKD&#8217;s take. I especially liked the hinting at our reality in <em>The Grasshopper Lies Heavy<\/em> and slow unveiling of what it says.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1178887545\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick My rating: 5 of 5 stars PKD writes about my favorite topic which is how we perceive reality. What is real? Can we actually tell? I may need to read more of his books. Sensation and Perception was my favorite class doing my Psychology major. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[256],"tags":[2706],"class_list":["post-8185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","tag-book-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-281","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}