{"id":1366,"date":"2014-10-15T10:46:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T14:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2014-10-15T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T14:46:26","slug":"the-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"The Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started Dave Eggers&#8217;s new book last night on a soccer sideline.   One of the characters begins the book with a new career at <del datetime=\"2014-10-15T14:43:13+00:00\">Google<\/del> The Circle.  <\/p>\n<p>Book may turn out alright, may not.  But it got me thinking of how rare it is to begin a job so happy and with all the tools you need to do it; how rare it is to have a job where your &#8220;boss&#8221; talks about the importance of humanity; how rare to have any kind of moral clarity that isn&#8217;t immediately and obviously compromised by the working conditions.  <\/p>\n<p>1. Dave Eggers, <em>The Circle<\/em>,(New York: Knopf, 2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started Dave Eggers&#8217;s new book last night on a soccer sideline. One of the characters begins the book with a new career at Google The Circle. Book may turn out alright, may not. But it got me thinking of how rare it is to begin a job so happy and with all the tools you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Circle<\/span> <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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-m2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}