{"id":14948,"date":"2014-06-20T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T10:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14948"},"modified":"2014-07-01T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T10:55:18","slug":"which-company-are-we-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14948","title":{"rendered":"Which company are we talking about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the most influential company in the world&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the world&#8217;s most admired company&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the only company that really mattered at all&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;his system had overtaken the web and the world&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, which company are we talking about? Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually a fictional company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Circle-Dave-Eggers\/dp\/024114650X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1404210852&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+Circle\">&#8220;The Circle<\/a>&#8221; which is at the heart of a novel of the same name by the American writer Dave Eggers. \u00a0I&#8217;ve just started to read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the most influential company in the world&#8221; &#8220;the world&#8217;s most admired company&#8221; &#8220;the only company that really mattered at all&#8221; &#8220;his system had overtaken the web and the world&#8221; So, which company are we talking about? Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon? It&#8217;s actually a fictional company called &#8220;The Circle&#8221; which is at the heart of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14948"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15013,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14948\/revisions\/15013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}