{"id":2483,"date":"2015-11-02T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2025-06-03T14:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:49:29","slug":"satin-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/satin-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Satin Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA bit of a ‘departure’ for me – I read this only because my wife got it from the library and didn’t like it – not enough ‘story’ for her. I took a while to get into the book – it is certainly not what you might call a “page turner”. One of the reviews on Amazon describes it as “clever but empty”!! I read it to the end – was I any the wiser? Perhaps not – but it was an interesting collection of ideas – and the central character’s job title (corporate anthropologist) was intriguing. Ultimately it probably raised more questions than it answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bit of a ‘departure’ for me – I read this only because my wife got it from the library and didn’t like it – not enough ‘story’ for her. I took a while to get into the book – it is certainly not what you might call a “page turner”. One of the reviews … Continue reading “Satin Island”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[87,103,119],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-fun","tag-philosophical","tag-worldview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}