{"id":14888,"date":"2018-09-17T09:37:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T13:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=14888"},"modified":"2018-09-17T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T13:37:09","slug":"inky-depths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=14888","title":{"rendered":"Inky Depths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The New York Times<\/em>, August 16, 2018, by <span class=\"css-1baulvz\">Ben Dolnick:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;War With the Newts,&#8221; published in 1936, is a funny, bizarre, dystopian masterpiece, and [its author Karel Capek] deserves a place on the Mount Rushmore of authorial seers, right alongside George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Margaret Atwood. To the extent that Capek is remembered today, it is largely by crossword puzzlers who know that he invented the word &#8220;robot&#8221; (and even this is dubious: Capek credits the term to his brother).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Capek was a Czech author, with many books to his name, including <em>War With the Newts<\/em>, which he wrote during the 1930s. I have worked on a great many crosswords, but the name doesn&#8217;t sound familiar, so I don&#8217;t think that I had ever heard of Capek, either as an author or the coiner of the word &#8220;robot,&#8221; before reading this article. I&#8217;m intrigued now, so I&#8217;ve ordered Capek&#8217;s<em> War With the Newts <\/em>and <em>Nine Fairy Tales: and One More Thrown in for Good Measure <\/em>from my public library. I am looking forward to reading them. I will probably have to wait a while for <em>WWtN<\/em>, though, because there are already four holds on the next available copy. I suspect I&#8217;m not the only person in town who&#8217;s been delving into the inky depths of the <em>The New York Times<\/em> and coming up with treasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times, August 16, 2018, by Ben Dolnick: &#8220;War With the Newts,&#8221; published in 1936, is a funny, bizarre, dystopian masterpiece, and [its author Karel Capek] deserves a place on the Mount Rushmore of authorial seers, right &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=14888\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14892,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888\/revisions\/14892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}