{"id":387,"date":"2007-11-29T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/11\/29\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-23\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T14:20:00","slug":"science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/11\/29\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Author Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nothing can astound an American&#8230;In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane&#8217;s proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possible. A thing with them is no sooner said than done. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jules Verne, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Earth-Moon-Jules-Verne\/dp\/1595478825\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_12?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1196346251&#038;sr=8-12\"><em>From the Earth to the Moon<\/em><\/a> (1865)<\/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>Nothing can astound an American&#8230;In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane&#8217;s proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/11\/29\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-23\/\">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\/387"}],"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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}