{"id":2400,"date":"2009-06-03T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T20:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/06\/03\/putting-the-internet-to-infinitely-good-use\/"},"modified":"2009-06-03T13:38:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T20:38:38","slug":"putting-the-internet-to-infinitely-good-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/putting-the-internet-to-infinitely-good-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting the Internet to Infinitely Good Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2009\/06\/wallace-infinite-jest.jpg' \/>  Finally someone has discovered a useful purpose for all of those wires connecting all of our computers.  <a href=\"http:\/\/infinitesummer.org\/\">Infinite Summer<\/a> is basically an online book club, devoted to David Foster Wallace&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316066524\/lecturenotesonge\">Infinite Jest<\/a><\/em>.  (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2009\/06\/a_supposedly_fun_thing_i_plan.html\">Ezra Klein<\/a>, who commandeered the only obvious blog post title.)  Anyone who would like to join along should plan on reading 75 pages a week (not at all burdensome), and can then come join the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>I once read through <em>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/em> with a real-world reading group, and it added a lot to the experience.  And I would like to do a blog-based book club when my own book comes out, so this should be a learning experience.  I&#8217;m going to give it a shot, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally someone has discovered a useful purpose for all of those wires connecting all of our computers. Infinite Summer is basically an online book club, devoted to David Foster Wallace&#8217;s Infinite Jest. (Via Ezra Klein, who commandeered the only obvious blog post title.) Anyone who would like to join along should plan on reading 75 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}