{"id":20669,"date":"2018-12-02T16:17:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T13:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=20669"},"modified":"2018-12-02T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T13:17:42","slug":"welcome-to-the-chthulucene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/12\/02\/welcome-to-the-chthulucene\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Chthulucene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear. In the latest <em>Scientific American<\/em> the lead editorial article seriously suggests that we ditch the un-spellable and un-pronounceable &#8220;anthropocene&#8221; <em>blah<\/em>word&#8230; and replace it with something even more un-pronounceable&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the Chthulucene &#8230; an age in which we teach ourselves to live in full and rich harmony<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not to be confused with the Cthulhucene, in which Plush Cthulhu will gather around the campfires with happy rainbow-tailed LOLcats, to intersection-ally knit muesli together and sing &#8216;Kumbaya my Lord&#8230;&#8217; while cuddling their therapy-shoggoths.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by the piece, the editors of <em>Scientific American<\/em> are being serious and obviously have no clue at all about Cthulhu, and why he might make their dippy &#8220;Chthulucene&#8221; proposal just a little bit untenable for a mass audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear. In the latest Scientific American the lead editorial article seriously suggests that we ditch the un-spellable and un-pronounceable &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/12\/02\/welcome-to-the-chthulucene\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unnamable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}