{"id":16149,"date":"2008-12-16T17:36:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T22:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16149"},"modified":"2014-10-15T14:21:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T18:21:30","slug":"philip-k-dick-and-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/16\/philip-k-dick-and-prostate-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip K. Dick and prostate cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s dead-tree <i>New York Times<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/16\/health\/views\/16case.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">(but apparently, based on the online date stamp, <i>yesterday&#8217;s<\/i> pixel edition)<\/a>, writer\/editor Dana Jennings invokes the spirit of Philip K. Dick  to illuminate his feelings about living with prostate cancer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>This is the way prostate cancer often feels, as if my world had turned into a Philip K. Dick dystopia in which the cold intent of many people&#151;especially my insurer and the other bureaucrats who populate the health-care-industrial-complex&#151;was to translate me into an abstraction, to deny my damaged and tiresome flesh-and-bloodness.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have no idea whether or not Jennings&#151;the author of  this year&#8217;s bestselling <i>Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death and Country Music<\/i>&#151; is a science-fiction reader or fan, or just happened to pick up the Dick meme from the movies, but regardless, I think Dick would have been amused to have been conflated with a disease.  <\/p>\n<p>Particularly that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s dead-tree New York Times (but apparently, based on the online date stamp, yesterday&#8217;s pixel edition), writer\/editor Dana Jennings invokes the spirit of Philip K. Dick to illuminate his feelings about living with prostate cancer: This is the way prostate cancer often feels, as if my world had turned into a Philip K. Dick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[517,410],"class_list":["post-16149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-new-york-times","tag-philip-k-dick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16150,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16149\/revisions\/16150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}