{"id":366,"date":"2004-05-15T13:37:17","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2004-05-15T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2004-05-15T20:37:17","slug":"apocalypse-now-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2004\/05\/apocalypse-now-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse N\u00f6w, II"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"sg-marginalia-250\">Yes I am recycling titles. You can read Apocalypse N\u00f6w I, about surstr\u00f6mming, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stefangeens.com\/000066.html\">here<\/a>.<\/span>G\u00f6ran Svensson looks over his shoulder as he pilots his chopper low over Vietnam&#8217;s dense forest canopy. Beside him, his buddy mans the machine gun, strafing intermittently out the open cabin at nothing in particular, just like in the movies. &#8220;It&#8217;s the perfect shoot-em up,&#8221; G\u00f6ran says too loudly, on account of his headphones. He should be paying more attention to his flying \u2014 his helicopter catches some branches and lurches for the ground. He survives; but his buddy does not.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Ten seconds later, after suffering a time penalty, they&#8217;re back in the game. G\u00f6ran, a twenty-something engineering student, is sitting to attention before a &#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweden.se\/templates\/Article____8744.asp\">article<\/a> on computer gaming in Sweden on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweden.se\/\">Sweden.se<\/a>, minus the above first paragraph, which was edited out on account that Swedes do not revel in violence (or maybe they are better helicopter pilots than that?). Writing this article was a lot of fun, but my style may have suffered a bit as it is a uniformly positive piece, devoid of the cynical turns of phrase which I know and love. (Also, links were removed from the text and grouped together at the bottom of the piece &mdash; it feels odd to have written someting online without links in obvious places). Feel free to point out mistakes I made and clarifications you might have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes I am recycling titles. You can read Apocalypse N\u00f6w I, about surstr\u00f6mming, here.G\u00f6ran Svensson looks over his shoulder as he pilots his chopper low over Vietnam&#8217;s dense forest canopy. Beside him, his buddy mans the machine gun, strafing intermittently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2004\/05\/apocalypse-now-ii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology","category-sweden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-5U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}