{"id":16943,"date":"2015-03-22T20:39:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T19:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16943"},"modified":"2015-03-22T20:39:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T19:39:29","slug":"an-uncomfortable-visit-to-the-nether","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16943","title":{"rendered":"An uncomfortable visit to &#8220;The Nether&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know how to show a girl a good time so, earlier this week, I took my wife out for our wedding anniversary to see a play about the dark side of the Internet. It is called <a href=\"http:\/\/thenethertheplay.co.uk\">&#8220;The Nether&#8221;<\/a> and is playing at the Duke of York&#8217;s theatre in central London.<\/p>\n<p>The play only has five characters and lasts just 80 minutes, but it is visually very creative and the American writer Jennifer Haley&#8217;s has crafted a work that is immensely thought-provoking. It challenges whether the real world and the on-line world are truly separate by representing an avatar as committing acts that in the real world are horrendous crimes but in cyberspace could be argued as having no consequence.<\/p>\n<p>We had a good meal beforehand at a restaurant opposite the theatre called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.la-roche-london.co.uk\">&#8220;La Roche<\/a>&#8221; which serves\u00a0Mediterranean cuisine with Moroccan and Lebanese influences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know how to show a girl a good time so, earlier this week, I took my wife out for our wedding anniversary to see a play about the dark side of the Internet. It is called &#8220;The Nether&#8221; and is playing at the Duke of York&#8217;s theatre in central London. The play only has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943","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=16943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16947,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions\/16947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}