{"id":105,"date":"2009-01-17T15:46:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T05:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cordie.net\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2020-04-22T18:30:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T08:30:59","slug":"bora-horza-gobuchul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cordie.net\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Bora Horza Gobuchul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bora Horza Gobuchul is the full name of the main character in a book called &#8220;Consider Phlebas&#8221; by Iain M. Banks first published 1987. I just finished reading it this afternoon. Here is a short extract from it:<\/p>\n<ol><em><br \/>\nWe are a mongrel race, our past a history of tangles, our sources obscure, our rowdy upbringing full of greedy, short-sighted empires and cruel, wasteful diasporas. Our ancestors were the lost-and-found of the galaxy, continually breeding and breeding and milling and killing, their societies and civilisations forever falling apart and reforming &#8230;<br \/>\nPoor sick mutations that we are, petty and obscene, servants of the machine-devils that we worship. Not even sure of our own identity: just who is Culture?<br \/>\nConsider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks p333-334.<br \/>\n<\/em>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bora Horza Gobuchul is the full name of the main character in a book called &#8220;Consider Phlebas&#8221; by Iain M. Banks first published 1987. I just finished reading it this<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cordie.net\/?p=105\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bora Horza Gobuchul<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cordie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cordie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cordie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cordie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cordie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cordie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/www.cordie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cordie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cordie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cordie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}