{"id":5581,"date":"2012-09-09T14:48:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T13:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/http\/craphound.com\/rotn\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2015-02-10T13:10:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T21:10:51","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/https\/craphound.com\/rotn\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About <em>The Rapture Of The Nerds<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n<p>Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another of the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar-system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander\u2026and when that happens, it casually spams Earth&#8217;s networks with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but there&#8217;s always someone who&#8217;ll take a bite from the forbidden apple.<\/p>\n<p>So until the overminds bore of stirring Earth&#8217;s anthill, there&#8217;s Tech Jury Service: random humans, selected arbitrarily, charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose. Young Huw, a technophobic, misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century. Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another of the swarming&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/https\/craphound.com\/rotn\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read About <em>The Rapture Of The Nerds<\/em>&#8220;>more <i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5584,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5581","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/https\/wp.me\/P3f2Q7-1s1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/https\/craphound.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/https\/craphound.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/https\/craphound.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/https\/craphound.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/https\/craphound.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/https\/craphound.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6419,"href":"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/https\/craphound.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5581\/revisions\/6419"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/https\/craphound.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/https\/craphound.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/summer-heart-0930.chufeiyun1688.workers.dev:443\/https\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}