{"id":13558,"date":"2014-06-24T15:18:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T20:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13558"},"modified":"2014-07-02T08:27:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T13:27:54","slug":"compare-and-contrast-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/compare-and-contrast-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Compare and Contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, I did a book report on Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/book-report-2001-a-space-odyssey-by-arthur-c-clarke-1968\/\" target=\"_blank\">2001: A Space Odyssey<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, Friar <a href=\"http:\/\/friarsfires.blogspot.com\/2014\/06\/fiction-and-science.html\" target=\"_blank\">reviewed it as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing Friar review a book I&#8217;ve read is as good of an excuse as any for me to go back and read what I thought about the book.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing, though: in my review, I noted that I&#8217;d bought two of the sequels to <em>2001<\/em> the week before I found it.  And I have yet to read them.  That testimony underlines what I said in my review about my feelings for Clarke.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>UPDATE:<\/b><\/font>  Welcome, <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/clarkeutus-of-borg.html\" target=\"_blank\">VftP readers<\/a>.  Take a moment to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/johndonnellysgold.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>John Donnelly&#8217;s Gold<\/em><\/a>, my novel.  It sucks less than <em>The Garden of Rama<\/em>, guaranteed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, I did a book report on Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Monday, Friar reviewed it as well. Seeing Friar review a book I&#8217;ve read is as good of an excuse as any for me to go back and read what I thought about the book. Funny thing, though: in my review, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13584,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558\/revisions\/13584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}