{"id":8597,"date":"2017-10-05T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8597"},"modified":"2017-10-06T00:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T04:20:57","slug":"never-let-me-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8597","title":{"rendered":"Never Let Me Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first saw the movie, <em>Never Let Me Go<\/em>, a few years back, it left me breathless. I mean, it left me gaping, with my best &#8220;what the fuck was that?&#8221; expression frozen on my face. It was, to put it mildly, a shocking film.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8598\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/never-let-me-go.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/never-let-me-go.jpg 740w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/never-let-me-go-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 120px; padding-right: 120px; text-align: center; margin-bottom: -1em;\"><p><em>We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I quickly grabbed the book and read it, too. Its impact, if possible, was even greater. An amazing &#8220;cautionary tale&#8221;, to use Larry Niven&#8217;s expression: a piece of science-fiction that holds up a mirror to let us see the darkest corners of our collective soul.<\/p>\n<p>And now the author, Kazuo Ishiguro, won the Nobel prize for literature. Well deserved. Very well deserved.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8597' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first saw the movie, Never Let Me Go, a few years back, it left me breathless. I mean, it left me gaping, with my best &#8220;what the fuck was that?&#8221; expression frozen on my face. It was, to put it mildly, a shocking film. We took away your art because we thought it <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8597' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-film","category-9-id","category-23-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8597"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8606,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions\/8606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}