{"id":48265,"date":"2021-06-07T05:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T02:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=48265"},"modified":"2021-06-07T05:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T02:23:44","slug":"greetings-carbon-based-bipeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/06\/07\/greetings-carbon-based-bipeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s chunky book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/greetings-carbon-based-bipeds-collected-essays-1934-1998\/page\/n11\/mode\/2up?q=Lovecraft\">Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998<\/a><\/em>, now on Archive.org in open PDF. Not a great scan, but you can see what you would get if you were to pick up the hardback for $8 used on Amazon. It appears there is no ebook edition other than this Archive.org scan, at least in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The book opens with an essay on Dunsany, and also includes a &#8220;Tribute to Robert Bloch&#8221;, &#8220;Save the Giant Squid!&#8221;, and a short survey of fierce gay warlords and generals in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s chunky book Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998, now on Archive.org in open PDF. Not a great &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/06\/07\/greetings-carbon-based-bipeds\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}