{"id":663,"date":"2008-04-30T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/04\/30\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-162\/"},"modified":"2008-04-30T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T13:32:00","slug":"science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/04\/30\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-162\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Author Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, &#8216;as pretty as an airport.&#8217; Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Douglas Adams, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Long-Dark-Tea-Time-Soul\/dp\/0671742515\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1209562432&#038;sr=8-1\"><em>The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul<\/em><\/a><\/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>It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, &#8216;as pretty as an airport.&#8217; Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/04\/30\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-162\/\">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\/663"}],"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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}