{"id":3501,"date":"2009-03-16T05:01:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T05:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/16\/links-for-2009-03-16\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T05:01:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T05:01:45","slug":"links-for-2009-03-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/16\/links-for-2009-03-16\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-03-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/book-vs-film-watchmen,24746\/\">Book Vs. Film: Watchmen | Books | A.V. Club<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Moore and Gibbons vs. Zach Snyder<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/comics\">comics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/avclub\">avclub<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/first-lensman-1950-by-ee-doc-smith,25040\/\">First Lensman (1950), by E.E. \u00e2\u0080\u009cDoc\u00e2\u0080\u009d Smith | Books | A.V. Club<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;First Lensman combined a lot of elements that, over the course of reading classic science fiction, have come to drive me nuts: Flat characters, shadeless morality, breathlessly detailed battle scenes, oh-yeah-then-this-happened pacing, and a prose style that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s functional at best. At the heart of the story are Virgil Samms\u00e2\u0080\u0094the First Lensman of the title\u00e2\u0080\u0094and Rod \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Rock\u00e2\u0080\u009d Kinnison. You won\u00e2\u0080\u0099t find two more interchangeable characters anywhere. And as for their adventures, there\u00e2\u0080\u0099s really not a moment of suspense: Smith makes it clear that good will always triumph over evil, and it proceeds to do just that in each episode.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/SF\">SF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/avclub\">avclub<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Vs. Film: Watchmen | Books | A.V. Club Moore and Gibbons vs. Zach Snyder (tags: comics movies literature books avclub) First Lensman (1950), by E.E. \u00e2\u0080\u009cDoc\u00e2\u0080\u009d Smith | Books | A.V. Club &quot;First Lensman combined a lot of elements that, over the course of reading classic science fiction, have come to drive me nuts:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/16\/links-for-2009-03-16\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-03-16<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}