{"id":53108,"date":"2026-01-30T09:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=48b90e0e0f2567f3b5a189ab993e96a7"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:10:24","slug":"tim-winton-sometimes-i-think-we-use-the-word-dystopia-as-an-opiate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/01\/30\/tim-winton-sometimes-i-think-we-use-the-word-dystopia-as-an-opiate\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Winton: &#8216;Sometimes I think we use the word dystopia as an opiate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"The New Scientist Book Club's February read is Tim Winton's novel Juice, set in a future Australia that is so hot it is almost unliveable. Here, the author lays out his reasons for writing it \u2013 and why he doesn't see it as dystopian","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Scientist Book Club&#8217;s February read is Tim Winton&#8217;s novel Juice, set in a future Australia that is so hot it is almost unliveable. Here, the author lays out his reasons for writing it \u2013 and why he doesn&#8217;t see it as dystopian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53109,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53108\/revisions\/53109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}