{"id":7821,"date":"2018-01-23T16:50:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7821"},"modified":"2018-01-23T16:50:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:50:03","slug":"three-times-is-friendly-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7821","title":{"rendered":"Three times is friendly action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, for the third time in the last year, I got email from a new SF author that went more or less like:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;d like to send you a copy of my first novel because [thing you wrote]  really inspired me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All the novels so far are libertarian SF with rivets on &#8211; the good stuff.  Amusingly, I don&#8217;t think any of these authors knew in advance that I&#8217;m a judge for the Prometheus awards,<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really gratifying that I&#8217;m making this kind of difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, for the third time in the last year, I got email from a new SF author that went more or less like: &#8220;Hi, I&#8217;d like to send you a copy of my first novel because [thing you wrote] really inspired me.&#8221; All the novels so far are libertarian SF with rivets on &#8211; the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7821\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three times is friendly action<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mr-famous-guy","category-science-fiction","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7822,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions\/7822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}