{"id":167,"date":"2008-09-02T13:18:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T17:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/?p=167"},"modified":"2008-09-02T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T17:18:48","slug":"hegirascope-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/2008\/09\/02\/hegirascope-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegirascope Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found the constant changing of screens first a bit irritating as I normally  like to control the movement of the text as I read, not have it be changed  automatically.\u00a0 Once I got into the gist of it and kept up reading quickly, it  became easier to follow.\u00a0 Sometimes there are one-two shots where questions are  posed or the story is split into two different pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I am  reading too much into this slide but as soon as the background turned pale and I  read desert, I thought of the background as a stand-like environment.\u00a0 This was  probably a coincidence since the backgrounds do not change that often.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/hgs\/HGS033.html\" target=\"l\">http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/hgs\/HGS033.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After  reading this work for about 20-25 minutes and getting the gist of how it was  going I then began to interact with it.\u00a0 After interacting with the text with  the text for awhile, it became apparent, one can create a story based upon the  four highlighted text words around the piece of text in the middle.\u00a0 Somehow, I  got to an exit point, which is here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/hgs\/HGS144.html\" target=\"l\">http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/hgs\/HGS144.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This  URL represents an escape from the work itself, and when one goes back to this  page a few times, it appears some of the links still exist but they are hidden,  so unless you mouse over them you cannot return; however, even when you exit  from the work:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/hgs\/HGSXX1.html\" target=\"l\">http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/hgs\/HGSXX1.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It  still continues after about 30 seconds.\u00a0 Changing the URL a bit at the end, it  reveals that HGS248 appears to be the last slide in the work itself:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/hgs\/HGS248.html\" target=\"l\">http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/hgs\/HGS248.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the constant changing of screens first a bit irritating as I normally like to control the movement of the text as I read, not have it be changed automatically.\u00a0 Once I got into the gist of it and kept up reading quickly, it became easier to follow.\u00a0 Sometimes there are one-two shots where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/2008\/09\/02\/hegirascope-comments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hegirascope Comments<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[28,29],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-hegirascope","tag-hypertext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}