{"id":518,"date":"2010-10-26T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T01:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2010-10-26T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T01:25:07","slug":"a-couple-of-links-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/26\/a-couple-of-links-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Couple of Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing very little writing lately (and obviously I won&#8217;t manage ten posts this month) but I wanted to check in with a couple of interesting links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2010\/20101018\/westfahl-a.shtml\">Gary Westfahl on Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s <cite>2001<\/cite> series<\/a>, and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wrongquestions.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/shire-of-shopkeepers-thoughts-on-hobbit.html\">Abigail Nussbaum on <cite>The Hobbit<\/cite> and its relation to <cite>The Lord of the Rings<\/cite><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I read these essays within a day of each other and realized that both were doing the same thing: looking at the worldviews and assumptions of the first books in two familiar SF\/fantasy series, and then examining how those assumptions changed as the authors wrote later books in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing very little writing lately (and obviously I won&#8217;t manage ten posts this month) but I wanted to check in with a couple of interesting links: Gary Westfahl on Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s 2001 series, and Abigail Nussbaum on The Hobbit and its relation to The Lord of the Rings. I read these essays &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/26\/a-couple-of-links-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Couple of Links<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[198,35],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-speculative-fiction","tag-books","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}