{"id":430,"date":"2007-12-16T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/12\/16\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-44\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T21:49:00","slug":"science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/12\/16\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Author Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s 90th birthday.  So today&#8217;s quote comes from him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run \u2014 and often in the short one \u2014 the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Arthur C. Clarke<em>The Exploration of Space <\/em>(1951), p. 111<\/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>Today is Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s 90th birthday. So today&#8217;s quote comes from him: If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run \u2014 and often in the short one &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/12\/16\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-44\/\">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\/430"}],"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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}