{"id":916,"date":"2002-07-16T23:23:01","date_gmt":"2002-07-16T23:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=916"},"modified":"2012-04-24T23:24:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T23:24:14","slug":"the-legend-that-was-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"The Legend That Was Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Legend That Was Earth<\/em> by James             P. Hogan<\/h3>\n<p>The Reading Group organizer wasn&#8217;t able to attend this             meeting since he had to be out of town on a business             trip. When he got back to Austin and asked how the             discussion went, he found that several people had             attended the meeting at Jeff and Judy&#8217;s house but none             of them remembered it. One person took notes but             couldn&#8217;t recall why she wrote what she did. Just so             there is some record of<!--more--> this meeting, those notes are             reproduced in their entirety below:<\/p>\n<pre>   TB, WS, JH, JS, SK, SC, LW, KB\r\n   6+1\r\n   Thrice Upon a Time\r\n   Aliens seemed more likable than humans\r\n   liked aliens a lot more\r\n   problems with the science\r\n   ex-wife was OK\r\n   too much running around &amp; blowing things up\r\n   Italics stuff was kind of boring\r\n   How could centralized news work\r\n   engineers \u2013 dull gray<\/pre>\n<p>There was some stuff at the bottom of the page about 4             1\/2 oz of instant pudding and 4 eggs, but I don&#8217;t think             that pertained to the discussion.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legend That Was Earth by James P. Hogan The Reading Group organizer wasn&#8217;t able to attend this meeting since he had to be out of town on a business trip. When he got back to Austin and asked how the discussion went, he found that several people had attended the meeting at Jeff and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}