{"id":565,"date":"2008-03-18T22:21:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T22:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=565"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:22","slug":"economic-whirlpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2008\/03\/economic-whirlpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Whirlpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"wsj_whirlpool.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wsj_whirlpool.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" \/><br \/>\nA recent illustration for WSJ.com regarding economists current view of our economic standing.  I usually have around 24 hours to turn these illo&#8217;s around and in this case I wish I had a bit more time to work on the drawing.<br \/>\nJust found out that the great Arthur C. Clarke has passed away. This past fall I came across a dusty and yellowed pile of his books in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/travel\/explorene\/maine\/articles\/2007\/10\/10\/fall_for_it\/\">The Stone Soup Bookstore<\/a> of Camden Maine. I began to quickly digest his amazing stories and man were they in my wheelhouse. The Times has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/19\/books\/19clarke.html?hp\">great obit<\/a>.  I&#8217;d recommend <i>Rendezvous with Rama<\/i>, <i>Childhood&#8217;s End<\/i> or <i>Against the Fall of Night<\/i> if your interested in a bit of grand sci-fi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent illustration for WSJ.com regarding economists current view of our economic standing. I usually have around 24 hours to turn these illo&#8217;s around and in this case I wish I had a bit more time to work on the drawing. Just found out that the great Arthur C. Clarke has passed away. This past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}