{"id":903,"date":"2006-09-08T12:35:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T11:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=903"},"modified":"2008-07-15T19:12:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T18:12:46","slug":"jeff-on-bldgblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/09\/08\/jeff-on-bldgblog\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff on Bldgblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotteagle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/ambergris.jpg\" alt=\"ambergris.jpg\" id=\"image902\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ambergris by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotteagle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Eagle<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffvandermeer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff VanderMeer<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/science-fiction-and-city-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed<\/a> by the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bldgblog<\/a>, discussing \u201cEnglish cathedrals, \u2018fungal technologies\u2019 and architectural infections, the Sydney opera house, Vladimir Nabokov, \u2018The Library of Babel,\u2019 Monsanto, giant squids and geological deposits, nighttime walks through Prague, and even urban security after the attacks of 9\/11\u201d. The interview includes some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/city.html\">my designs for <em>City of Saints and Madmen<\/em><\/a> and provides a great insight into Jeff&#8217;s work, avoiding the usual discussions about contemporary fantasy writing for something far more interesting and thought-provoking.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/07\/31\/an-announcement-redux\/\">An announcement redux<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambergris by Scott Eagle. Jeff VanderMeer is interviewed by the excellent Bldgblog, discussing \u201cEnglish cathedrals, \u2018fungal technologies\u2019 and architectural infections, the Sydney opera house, Vladimir Nabokov, \u2018The Library of Babel,\u2019 Monsanto, giant squids and geological deposits, nighttime walks through Prague, and even urban security after the attacks of 9\/11\u201d. The interview includes some of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/09\/08\/jeff-on-bldgblog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jeff on Bldgblog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,51,21,23],"tags":[1841,142,146,807],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-cities","category-fantasy","category-work","tag-bldgblog","tag-jeff-vandermeer","tag-prague","tag-vladimir-nabokov"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-ez","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}