{"id":3206,"date":"2008-03-18T19:03:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/03\/18\/r-i-p\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T19:03:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T00:03:25","slug":"r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/03\/r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">To Arthur C. Clarke who died today.<br \/>\n&nbsp;Thank you Mr. Clarke for<br \/>\nyears of reading enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Too bad the MSM as usual can&#8217;t get their<br \/>\nfacts straight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Clarke&#8217;s best-known novel, &#8220;2001: A<br \/>\nSpace Odyssey,&#8221; became the basis of<br \/>\nthe 1968 film of the same name, directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film<br \/>\nand the book elevated the plot&#8217;s mentally unbalanced computer, HAL<br \/>\n9000, into the pantheon of great fictional characters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Sorry it was a short story and it was<br \/>\ncalled &#8220;The Sentinel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Via <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/lookingcloser.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/18\/farwell-to-arthur-c-clarke-and-anthony-minghella\/\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Overstreet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Arthur C. Clarke who died today. &nbsp;Thank you Mr. Clarke for years of reading enjoyment. Too bad the MSM as usual can&#8217;t get their facts straight. Clarke&#8217;s best-known novel,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}