{"id":12582,"date":"2008-03-18T18:11:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T01:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/03\/18\/rendezvousing-with-rama.html"},"modified":"2008-03-18T18:11:13","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T01:11:13","slug":"rendezvousing_with_rama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/rendezvousing_with_rama.html","title":{"rendered":"Rendezvousing with Rama"},"content":{"rendered":"

RIP Arthur C. Clarke<\/a>. He was one of the classic sf writers I grew up on — various shorts, as well as novels like The City and the Stars <\/em>and Childhood’s End, <\/em>both of which I still pull down on occasion to read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RIP Arthur C. Clarke. He was one of the classic sf writers I grew up on — various shorts, as well as novels like The City and the Stars and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20905,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/01\/the-greatest-sci-fi-movie-never-made.html","url_meta":{"origin":12582,"position":0},"title":"The Greatest Sci-Fi Movie Never Made","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-May-11 6:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Register has been gathering suggestions, and posting also-rans, but is finally soliciting a vote for the greatest sci-fi work never (yet) made into a movie.\u00a0 My own commentary on the list of 50 below, with the understanding that, gasp, I've never read most of these and never even heard\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/destination-moon.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13366,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/11\/book_reviews_by_the_sever.html","url_meta":{"origin":12582,"position":1},"title":"Book Reviews by the Several","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Jan-09 8:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Too many books, too little time for decent reviews. 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