{"id":718,"date":"2007-01-28T23:42:23-05:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T04:42:23+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/01\/28\/i-benford\/"},"modified":"2007-01-29T00:15:13-05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T05:15:13+00:00","slug":"i-benford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/01\/28\/i-benford\/","title":{"rendered":"I,&nbsp;Benford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>In case you were wondering, <a href=\"http:\/\/paulkienitz.net\/skiffy.html\">the science fiction writer I&#8217;m (apparently) most like<\/a> is <cite class=\"name\">Gregory Benford<\/cite>, <q>A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist.<\/q>  I&#8217;m not sure how accurate that assessment is, though: <q>The real Greg Benford once took this quiz, and it told him he was Arthur C. Clarke.<\/q>  I&#8217;d have preferred <a href=\"http:\/\/paulkienitz.net\/skiffy_result.html?b\">Alfred Bester<\/a> or Harlan Ellison &#8212; hey, if <a href=\"http:\/\/paulkienitz.net\/skiffy_result.html?y\">Ayn Rand<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/paulkienitz.net\/skiffy_result.html?k\">Mickey Spillane<\/a> are considered sci-fi writers in the quiz, HE surely qualifies &#8212; although I&#8217;ve got very little in common with the latter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulkienitz.net\/skiffy.html\">Which science fiction writer are you?<\/a>  (via <a href=\"http:\/\/writerbroadcaster.com\/WordPress\/index.php\/?p=488\">Joe Mahoney<\/a>)<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In case you were wondering, the science fiction writer I&#8217;m (apparently) most like is Gregory Benford, A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist. I&#8217;m not sure how accurate that assessment is, though: The real Greg Benford once took this quiz, and it told him he was Arthur C. Clarke. I&#8217;d have preferred&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}