{"id":1008,"date":"2010-02-08T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/02\/death-and-new-life-for-philip-k-dick.html"},"modified":"2010-02-08T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T18:40:00","slug":"death-and-new-life-for-philip-k-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/02\/death-and-new-life-for-philip-k-dick.html","title":{"rendered":"Death &#8212; and New Life &#8212; for Philip K. Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>IT seems appropriate for a writer who was fascinated by religion for much of his career that Philip K. Dick&#8217;s own trajectory tracks that of many a religious messiah: He died in 1982, but in the years after his death he has seemed to rise again.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/herocomplex\/scott-timberg\/\">HERE<\/a> is the last of six pieces in the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/herocomplex\/\">Hero Complex <\/a>blog about the author&#8217;s decade in Orange County. It looks at his final years, his death, and the movie <i>Blade Runner<\/i>, which started out as a bomb before becoming one of the (few) great movies of the &#8217;80s and perhaps the defining film of contemporary Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S3BdWqx3apI\/AAAAAAAAApQ\/sea1L3AAkao\/s1600-h\/Rick_Deckard.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"252\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S3BdWqx3apI\/AAAAAAAAApQ\/sea1L3AAkao\/s320\/Rick_Deckard.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This week I will put up a single post that will collect all my recent writing on the author, for Hero Complex and elsewhere. \u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT seems appropriate for a writer who was fascinated by religion for much of his career that Philip K. Dick&#8217;s own trajectory tracks that of many a religious messiah: He died in 1982, but in the years after his death he has seemed to rise again. HERE is the last of six pieces in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,76,144,186,137,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-film","8":"category-orange-co","9":"category-philip-k-dick","10":"category-science-fiction","11":"category-west-coast","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}