{"id":396,"date":"2006-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T23:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=396"},"modified":"2024-12-31T12:55:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:55:29","slug":"pattern-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/12\/31\/pattern-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Books 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Pattern Recognition<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">William Gibson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">William Gibson has been called the father of cyberpunk, but \u201cPattern Recognition\u201d has a decidedly contemporary setting. Cayce is a freelance advertising consultant whose sensitivity (bordering on allergy) to brand marks \u2018pick\u2019 designs that will succeed in the marketplace. Her real fascination, however, is an enigmatic online film-in-progress. New scenes appear, at random and in no apparent order, while theories regarding who is making it (and why) abound. Then an ambitious tycoon (who sees its potential as a viral marketing tool) hires her to find the creator. Intrigue, wry social observation and Gibson\u2019s brilliant writing make this novel a real treat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Gibson<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOtago Daily Times Best Books 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47,348,18,61],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-47","tag-best-books","tag-odt","tag-william-gibson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}