{"id":901,"date":"2009-06-26T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=901"},"modified":"2011-03-02T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T19:56:15","slug":"everybodys-i-ching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/06\/everybodys-i-ching.html","title":{"rendered":"Everybody&#8217;s I Ching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.random.org\/\">random.org<\/a>; if you want true chance operations <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00e0 la<\/span> John Cage, for years the go-to source has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmus.net\/filelib.htm\">ic<\/a>, the little DOS program written by Cage&#8217;s assistant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anarchicharmony.org\/People\/AndrewCulver.html\">Andrew Culver<\/a>.  It imitates the <a href=\"http:\/\/deoxy.org\/iching\/\">I Ching<\/a>&#8216;s method of producing random numbers without all the original&#8217;s tedious poetry and oracular pontification.<\/p>\n<p>Now that command-line programs are a dying breed for the general computer user, it&#8217;s great to see that Culver is keeping the program alive by putting a beta of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anarchicharmony.org\/IChing\/ic.cfm\">a new, user-friendly, web-based ic<\/a> on his site.  If it was good enough for Cage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget random.org; if you want true chance operations \u00e0 la John Cage, for years the go-to source has been ic, the little DOS program written by Cage&#8217;s assistant Andrew Culver. It imitates the I Ching&#8216;s method of producing random numbers without all the original&#8217;s tedious poetry and oracular pontification. Now that command-line programs are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4730,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/4730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}