{"id":314,"date":"2007-10-18T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/10\/18\/314\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T14:17:00","slug":"314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/10\/18\/314\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science Fictiona author quote of the day from Neal Stephenson (author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson\/dp\/0060512806\/ref=sr_1_8\/102-4256198-2311301?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1192717153&#038;sr=1-8\"><em>Cryptonomicon<\/em><\/a>, among other works):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen\/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter&#8217;s is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you&#8217;re trying to breathe liquid methane. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wired 2.02: In the Kindom of Mao Bell<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Fictiona author quote of the day from Neal Stephenson (author of Cryptonomicon, among other works): For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen\/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/10\/18\/314\/\">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":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}