{"id":12148,"date":"2007-01-31T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/flatland-the-movie\/"},"modified":"2007-01-31T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T23:20:00","slug":"flatland-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/flatland-the-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Flatland: The Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The book <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flatland\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions<\/i><\/a> was a short novella written in 1884 by Edwin Abbott.  The main protagonist is a square living in a two-dimensional world who describes the world as he sees it.  His life is thrown into disarray when a sphere from the &ldquo;three-dimensional world&rdquo; visits, as he cannot visualize the third dimension at all.  The book is a fascinating read, and if you&rsquo;re interested I highly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0738205419\/andrewchorney\" title=\"amazon.com - Flatland\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Annotated Flatland<\/i><\/a> version, or you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/eldritch\/eaa\/FL.HTM\" target=\"_blank\">read it in full online here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>When I read on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/57877\" target=\"_blank\"><i>MetaFilter<\/i><\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flatlandthemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Flatland: The Movie<\/i><\/a> was in the works (narrated by Martin Sheen), I was intrigued.  After looking at the trailer, I&rsquo;m not quite sure I&rsquo;m happy with how they&rsquo;re treating it, but I guess I&rsquo;ll give it the benefit of the doubt until I see the actual movie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/movies\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">movies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/literature\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">literature<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/video\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/science\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-7782055229526924727?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions was a short novella written in 1884 by Edwin Abbott. The main protagonist is a square living in a two-dimensional world who describes the world as he sees it. His life is thrown into disarray when a sphere from the &ldquo;three-dimensional world&rdquo; visits, as he cannot visualize &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/flatland-the-movie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flatland: The Movie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}