{"id":2242,"date":"2016-09-30T10:40:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T18:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2016-09-30T10:40:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T18:40:05","slug":"review-when-strangers-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2242","title":{"rendered":"Review: When Strangers Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/warrenellis.com\">Warren Ellis<\/a>&#8216;s fault that I read this, and I thank him for it.\u00a0 Kio Stark has a great gift for seeking out and describing the small moments that interacting with strangers can bring you.\u00a0 There are moments of fright, enlightenment, joy, melancholy, and usually mixtures of all those.\u00a0 She writes remarkably beautifully about them.\u00a0 Ellis brought them to me by mentioning her <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyletter.com\/kio\">brilliant newsletter<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/orbitaloperations.com\/\">his brilliant newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>When Strangers Meet<\/em> is Stark&#8217;s manifesto claiming that people should seek these moments out. The whole thing is brought to us by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/read\/ted-books\">TED folks<\/a>, no relation.\u00a0 She makes a fine argument and I&#8217;m predisposed to believe her.\u00a0 Seeking out exchanges with strangers one of the things I&#8217;ve begun doing lately, and I agree with all the benefits she claims.\u00a0 But the best arguments for her position are her vignettes.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended, as is her newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Warren Ellis&#8216;s fault that I read this, and I thank him for it.\u00a0 Kio Stark has a great gift for seeking out and describing the small moments that interacting with strangers can bring you.\u00a0 There are moments of fright, enlightenment, joy, melancholy, and usually mixtures of all those.\u00a0 She writes remarkably beautifully about them.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}