{"id":34,"date":"2014-11-05T16:02:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2014-11-05T16:02:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:02:13","slug":"religion-in-sci-fi-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Religion in Sci-fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished Hugh Howey\u2019s Wool, omnibus edition.\u00a0 My rave reviews are posted elsewhere.\u00a0 For this blog, I want to say that the only overt mention of religion was that the Silo had priests.\u00a0 Where they were, we don\u2019t know.\u00a0 We never meet them.\u00a0 The heroine, Juliette says, \u201c&#8230; the priests said it had always been here, that it was lovingly created by a caring God, that everything they would ever need had been provided for &#8230; What god would make so much rock below and air above and just a measly silo between?&#8230; man wasn\u2019t supposed to exceed his bounds\u201d\u00a0 Despite the lack of religious content within the story, the metaphysical symbolism that encloses this world is powerful, and given the solid reality of the setting, surprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished Hugh Howey\u2019s Wool, omnibus edition.\u00a0 My rave reviews are posted elsewhere.\u00a0 For this blog, I want to say that the only overt mention of religion was that the Silo had priests.\u00a0 Where they were, we don\u2019t know.\u00a0 We never meet them.\u00a0 The heroine, Juliette says, \u201c&#8230; the priests said it had always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}