{"id":1080,"date":"2003-04-05T05:52:42","date_gmt":"2003-04-05T21:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/05\/terminators-of-endearment\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:56:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:56:30","slug":"terminators-of-endearment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/05\/terminators-of-endearment\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminators of Endearment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14915,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/groups.google.com\\\/groups?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;safe=off&amp;selm=3E7FC19F.55ED%40wizvax.net&amp;rnum=87&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20021202081858\\\/http:\\\/\\\/groups.google.com:80\\\/groups?hl=en&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14916,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2003_04_01_archive.html#200101325&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110623141014\\\/http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2003_04_01_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 06:37:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 06:37:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This is wonderful &#8212; a few people in the rec.arts.sf.written newsgroup have hit upon the idea of a cross between the Terminator sci-fi series and the writings of Jane Austin&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;Indeed,&#8221; said the man (whom Patience could not help but think of as made of clockwork, though he manifestly was something far stranger), &#8220;I speak of these things not merely because of the way that I am made, though indeed a machine should do that which it is made to do, but because I have found that I have developed, through our many conversations, a feeling of that which is proper, both within the bounds of your society and without; and being that I am, here, a gentleman, I find that I am also bound to behave as a gentleman would, and indeed, Lady Patience, I must warn you that this Mr.\u00a0Connor is a man of <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;safe=off&amp;selm=3E7FC19F.55ED%40wizvax.net&amp;rnum=87\" title=\"Terminators of Endearment\">less than sterling character<\/a>.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_04_01_archive.html#200101325\" title=\"Terminator meets Pride and Prejudice\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is wonderful &mdash; a few people in the rec.arts.sf.written newsgroup have hit upon the idea of a cross between the Terminator sci-fi series and the writings of Jane Austin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2037],"tags":[6,2287,2286],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-tv-and-films","tag-humor","tag-jane-austin","tag-the-terminator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}