{"id":464,"date":"2008-03-19T03:16:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T07:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2014-02-11T23:23:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T04:23:24","slug":"arthur-c-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Arthur C. Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news is reporting that Arthur C. Clark died today. Which reminds me: a few years ago there was a sale on his massive short story collection at Chapters. I was using it as bed-time reading for a while, but had to stop: not because I wasn&#8217;t finding the stories interesting or because some of them were repetitive, but because the book was freaking <em>huge <\/em>and it was a pain in the ass (well, wrist) to hold it up in the awkward angles generated by bedtime reading. So I set it aside, meaning to read it that summer&#8230; but I haven&#8217;t seen it since. Did I loan it to anyone, or does anyone know which book I&#8217;m talking about and want to loan it to me so I can finish what I started?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news is reporting that Arthur C. Clark died today. Which reminds me: a few years ago there was a sale on his massive short story collection at Chapters. I was using it as bed-time reading for a while, but had to stop: not because I wasn&#8217;t finding the stories interesting or because some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}