{"id":28,"date":"2006-01-08T04:50:43","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T04:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=28"},"modified":"2007-04-23T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T14:34:35","slug":"the-ten-pillars-of-modern-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Pillars of Modern Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

As various people have been reading and corresponding about A Sane Woman<\/a> and U-town<\/a>, I’ve been referring quite often to The Ten Pillars of Modern Literature, a series of small essays about the novels, stories and plays which have especially influenced what I’m doing.<\/p>\n

The only problem is that the essays are not all in one place. The first five were scattered throughout the chapter Curse the Darkness<\/a> in U-town (one of them in two parts), and the others were in the Jan Sleet’s Dream<\/a> chapter of the current novel.<\/p>\n

I decided they should be collected together, but I didn’t want to copy them and have them in two places. But then it occurred to me that this could be done in PHP. So, I wrote a PHP script, the most complex I’ve done so far, which pulls the text from those different locations, depending on which one you select.<\/p>\n

In a couple of cases, it also combines two entries into one (since there were two about Dave Sim and two about William Burroughs), so there are now eight, which means I can do two more without getting into “Hitchhiker’s Guide Trilogy” territory, though I’m sure I’ll end up there eventually. As I indicated in an earlier entry<\/a>, I already know I need to add The Alexandria Quartet.<\/p>\n

Also, I found a JavaScript script which allows you to put a random quote on your web page. I liked the idea, but I don’t like JavaScript, so I re-did it in PHP as well.<\/p>\n

So, at the end of the list of the ten (currently eight) pillars, there will appear a random link to another part of the story.<\/p>\n

And here it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As various people have been reading and corresponding about A Sane Woman and U-town, I’ve been referring quite often to The Ten Pillars of Modern Literature, a series of small essays about the novels, stories and plays which have especially influenced what I’m doing. The only problem is that the essays are not all in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5,111],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-webtech","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}