{"id":370,"date":"2007-11-19T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/11\/19\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-13\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T14:25:00","slug":"science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/11\/19\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Author Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Orson Scott Card, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Enders-Game-Ender-Book-1\/dp\/0812550706\/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1195482398&#038;sr=8-2\"><em>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, several schools around the world have adopted <em>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/em> as required reading, some for its psychological aspects, others for its science fiction background, including the Marine Corps University at Quantico, where it is used as a textbook on the psychology of leadership.  The book won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best science fiction novel.<\/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>Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you. Orson Scott Card, Ender&#8217;s Game According to Wikipedia, several schools around &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/11\/19\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-13\/\">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\/370"}],"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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}