{"id":12228,"date":"2013-12-06T12:16:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=12228"},"modified":"2013-12-06T12:16:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:16:46","slug":"utopia-in-the-blood-surrogate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/06\/utopia-in-the-blood-surrogate\/","title":{"rendered":"Utopia in the Blood Surrogate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After his expulsion from the [Communist] party in 1909, he founded a Utopian school for workers on the island of Capri, but became deeply apolitical around this time, serving in World War One as a doctor, and having an elliptical impact on Soviet Russian politics and philosophy after the War. It is clear that his experiments in blood transfusions&mdash;one of which eventually killed him&mdash;were designed to explore the possibility of achieving Immortality; and it is rumoured that, given Lenin&#8217;s brain (after his death) to study, he hoped to resuscitate him, with the ultimate hope of making the Bolshevik rulers of the USSR immortal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Science Fiction Encyclopedia entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sf-encyclopedia.com\/entry\/bogdanov_alexander\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Bogdanov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his expulsion from the [Communist] party in 1909, he founded a Utopian school for workers on the island of Capri, but became deeply apolitical around this time, serving in World War One as a doctor, and having an elliptical impact on Soviet Russian politics and philosophy after the War. It is clear that his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1683,1682,1684],"class_list":["post-12228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-nuggets","tag-communism","tag-kim-stanley-robinson","tag-utopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->