{"id":192423,"date":"2024-07-06T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/the-culture-of-iain-m-banks"},"modified":"2024-07-06T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T21:26:07","slug":"the-culture-of-iain-m-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/the-culture-of-iain-m-banks","title":{"rendered":"The Culture of Iain M Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Culture : the science fiction utopia that actually works\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0MOZubzNO6c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This insightful video essay about the late great Iian M Banks and his extraordinary series of books known as \u201cThe Culture\u201d gives us a glimpse of the potential we have now as a species, set in a future where we have not just met that potential, but EXCEEDED it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This insightful video essay about the late great Iian M Banks and his extraordinary series of books known as \u201cThe Culture\u201d gives us a glimpse of the potential we have now as a species, set in a future where we have not just met that potential, but EXCEEDED it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}