{"id":3847,"date":"2005-06-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/conversation-with-an-android\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T21:30:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:30:16","slug":"conversation-with-an-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/conversation-with-an-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation with an Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Me: &#8220;How are you feeling?&#8221;<br \/>\nP.K. Dick: &#8220;I&#8217;m fine.&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;Are you sure?&#8221;<br \/>\nP.K. Dick: &#8220;Is that sarcasm?&#8221;<br \/>\nEveryone: &#8220;Hahahahaha.&#8221;<br \/>\nP.K. Dick: &#8220;Ha. Ha.&#8221;<br \/>\nB. to Me: &#8220;It must be intelligent. It only took a minute to figure you out.&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;Yeah, yeah.&#8221;<br \/>\nB.: &#8220;Are you alive?&#8221;<br \/>\nP.K. Dick: &#8220;What is the state of being alive?&#8221;<br \/>\nEveryone: &#8220;Oooooooo.&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;Are you being abused?&#8221;<br \/>\nP.K. Dick: &#8220;It is my nature to be abused.&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;Excellent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cloned cats, interactive robots, video games on acid? Eh, those things didn&#8217;t really grab me. But a conversation with Philip K. Dick&#8217;s android? It was definitely worth the price of admission. Today&#8217;s the last day for Wired&#8217;s Nextfest at Navy Pier. Go chat him up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: &#8220;How are you feeling?&#8221; P.K. Dick: &#8220;I&#8217;m fine.&#8221; Me: &#8220;Are you sure?&#8221; P.K. Dick: &#8220;Is that sarcasm?&#8221; Everyone: &#8220;Hahahahaha.&#8221; P.K. Dick: &#8220;Ha. Ha.&#8221; B. to Me: &#8220;It must be intelligent. It only took a minute to figure you out.&#8221; Me: &#8220;Yeah, yeah.&#8221; B.: &#8220;Are you alive?&#8221; P.K. Dick: &#8220;What is the state of being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5439,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/5439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}