{"id":412,"date":"2010-05-23T03:29:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2010-05-23T10:33:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T17:33:07","slug":"santaroga-barrier-the-by-herbert-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"<u>Santaroga Barrier, The<\/u>, by Herbert, Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>It&#8217;ll be a beautiful life,<\/em> he thought.  <em>Beautiful . . . beautiful . . . beautiful.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Frank Herbert&#8217;s 1967 novel The Santaroga Barrier is probably best interpreted as a utopia novel, though there are strong psychological and drug use themes that run through it too.  As a utopia, I cannot imagine anyone concluding that it is anything other than another ambiguous utopia.  Santaroga tells the story of Gilbert Daesin, a UC Berkley psychologist during a visit to a Northern California community<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/488'>[&#8230;]<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/488'>Read the rest of this review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;ll be a beautiful life, he thought. Beautiful . . . beautiful . . . beautiful. Frank Herbert&#8217;s 1967 novel The Santaroga Barrier is probably best interpreted as a utopia novel, though there are strong psychological and drug use themes that run through it too. As a utopia, I cannot imagine anyone concluding that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[2620,2554,2543,2571,2511],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}