{"id":60,"date":"2012-01-05T16:47:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T16:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tekivaonline.net\/bl_g\/?p=60"},"modified":"2012-05-10T02:16:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T02:16:29","slug":"getting-to-know-the-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.it-girl.net\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Getting to Know The Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder what The Thing of John Carpenter&#8217;s The Thing fame was thinking? Well, I have, and so has Peter Watts, a biologist and scifi writer. <\/p>\n<p>As I was IMing a friend discussing the motivations, methods, and general thought processes that drive the monster, he sent me a link to the EXCELLENT fictional short story by Peter Watts titled &#8220;The Things&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>So, if you are interested in seeing things from The Thing&#8217;s side (haha), have a read over at ClarkesWorld Magazine: http:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/watts_01_10\/. (2011 Hugo Award Nominee, 2010 BSFA Award Finalist, 2010 Shirley Jackson Award Winner, 2011 Finalist: the Locus Award for Best Short Story, 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Award Nominee)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder what The Thing of John Carpenter&#8217;s The Thing fame was thinking? Well, I have, and so has Peter Watts, a biologist and scifi writer. As I was IMing a friend discussing the motivations, methods, and general thought processes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.it-girl.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.it-girl.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.it-girl.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.it-girl.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.it-girl.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.it-girl.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.it-girl.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.it-girl.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.it-girl.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.it-girl.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.it-girl.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}