{"id":26105,"date":"2022-06-20T15:55:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/06\/20\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-fountains-of-paradise-by-arthur-c-clarke\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T23:29:35","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-the-fountains-of-paradise-by-arthur-c-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/06\/20\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-fountains-of-paradise-by-arthur-c-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>33\/2022 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/eccf2784-61a6-4579-849e-7598b1d891b0\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a> 1980 Hugo Best Novel<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family\" open sans sans-serif font-size: medium font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>The story of the construction of humanity\u2019s first space elevator, tied to the history of the (semi-fictional) island that serves as its base. An easy read, concerned primarily with exploring how such an engineering feat might happen, and without any real antagonist or great interpersonal dramas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family\" open sans sans-serif font-size: medium font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_8386-scaled.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26104\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" alt=\"Michael holding The Fountains of Paradise\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_8386-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_8386-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_8386-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_8386-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_8386-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_8386-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An easy read, concerned primarily with exploring how such an engineering feat might happen, and without any real antagonist or great interpersonal dramas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[1015,2012,3313],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26105"}],"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=26105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}