{"id":311,"date":"2009-07-07T14:17:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T18:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2009-07-07T14:17:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T18:17:17","slug":"posthuman-blues-blog-serves-up-women-in-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/07\/posthuman-blues-blog-serves-up-women-in-tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Posthuman Blues Blog Serves up &#8220;Women in Tubes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/posthumanblues.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/woman_in_tube.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Pulp Sci Fi Women in Tubes\" width=\"258\" height=\"368\" style=\"float:left;margin:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-left:-12px;\" \/><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/posthumanblues.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Posthuman Blues<\/a><\/em> has been posting a series of what I never dreamed is an indispensable theme in golden age science fiction pulps: women in tubes!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I wish that Mac&#8217;s posts were tagged so that I could link to the whole series, but if you browse through the posts you can find them. Who knew that this was a subconscious imperative that retro science fiction <em>simply must<\/em> express?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And as you might imagine, I&#8217;ve searched my own work for tube women and I have to confess that I come up short. I feel completely inadequate, in fact. I have a feeling that I&#8217;m just going to have to do something about that before long*. I mean, sure, I&#8217;ve put toasters in globes&#8230; but no girls in tubes? What the heck was I thinking?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And I wish that I were as clever as the commenter who called them &#8220;Tubular Belles&#8221;, too.\n<br \/><br \/><em>*Update:<\/em>  Yep, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/2009\/07\/25\/in-which-i-explore-the-phenomenon-of-women-in-tubes\/\">couldn&#8217;t resist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posthuman Blues has been posting a series of what I never dreamed is an indispensable theme in golden age science fiction pulps: women in tubes! I wish that Mac&#8217;s posts were tagged so that I could link to the whole series, but if you browse through the posts you can find them. Who knew that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}