{"id":674,"date":"2020-01-06T23:23:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T23:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2020-01-06T23:23:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T23:23:45","slug":"a-magic-kingdom-open-armed-greet-us-hello-bravo-name-in-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/06\/a-magic-kingdom-open-armed-greet-us-hello-bravo-name-in-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"A magic kingdom, open-armed, Greet us hello, bravo, name in lights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just read <em>Drive<\/em> by S.A. Corey. It&#8217;s a SF short story set in <em>The Expanse<\/em> universe (I&#8217;m intending to read all the stories, novellas and novels over the next month). It&#8217;s a straightforward story &#8211; about Solomon Epstein, the inventor of an engine that allows fast spaceflight and his first testflight &#8211; but what is delightful is the way that it&#8217;s told in flashbacks about the developing relationship with the woman he marries and the backdrop of growing tensions between Mars and Earth.  It has a bittersweet ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Really cross with myself for seemingly losing my ipad! I left it in the classroom in which I was teaching at the end of the day. I\u2019m not working tomorrow as I\u2019m having my guts cut open at the local hospital so can\u2019t dash in early and try to retrieve it. Being realistic, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll see it again. How on Earth did I not put it into my bag when I packed up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listened to an old BBC audio drama of Conan Doyle\u2019s <em>The Lost World<\/em>. Not having read the novel, In don\u2019t know how faithful it is. I liked the way the different characters bounced off each other. I\u2019ll add the novel to my ever-growing list of \u201cto reads\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read Drive by S.A. Corey. It&#8217;s a SF short story set in The Expanse universe (I&#8217;m intending to read all the stories, novellas and novels over the next month). It&#8217;s a straightforward story &#8211; about Solomon Epstein, the inventor of an engine that allows fast spaceflight and his first testflight &#8211; but what is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}