{"id":552,"date":"2008-02-03T00:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/02\/03\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-106\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T00:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T00:38:00","slug":"science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/02\/03\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-106\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Author Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Call it\u2026 joy. The thing like pleasure that you feel when you&#8217;ve done a good thing or passed up a real tempting chance to do a bad thing. Or when the unfolding of the universe just seems especially apt. It&#8217;s nowhere near as flashy and intense as pleasure can be. Believe me! But it&#8217;s got something going for it. Something that can make you do without pleasure, or even accept a lot of pain, to get it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spider Robinson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Other-Stories-Science-Fiction-Fantasy\/dp\/0786241624\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1201999242&#038;sr=1-2\"><em>God is an Iron<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it\u2026 joy. The thing like pleasure that you feel when you&#8217;ve done a good thing or passed up a real tempting chance to do a bad thing. Or when the unfolding of the universe just seems especially apt. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/02\/03\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-106\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}