{"id":1961,"date":"2012-09-25T19:25:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T17:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2012-09-26T12:03:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T10:03:41","slug":"i-thought-he-was-taller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1961","title":{"rendered":"I thought he was taller"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No, it’s not JayG<\/a>… it’s Neal Stephenson<\/a>, an intellectual giant if not a physical one.<\/p>\n

He was here, in Cape Town<\/a>, and the publicity was… nonexistent. I heard of it on talk radio, and only because I nipped out to buy some ally over lunch hour or something. The discussion was lead by some fellow with a consonant for a surname<\/a> who was trying to make himself appear clever, and who now and then allowed Neal a word edgewise.<\/p>\n

But it was worth it, I got to meet the man and get a signed copy of Reamde<\/a>.

No, it’s not JayG… it’s Neal Stephenson, an intellectual giant if not a physical one. He was here, in Cape Town, and the publicity was… nonexistent. I heard of it on talk radio, and only because I nipped out to buy some ally over lunch hour or something. The discussion was lead by some fellow with a consonant for a surname who was trying to make himself appear clever, and who now and then allowed Neal a word edgewise. But it was worth it, I got to meet the man and get a signed copy of Reamde.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}