{"id":2143,"date":"2014-12-16T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2014-12-16T01:02:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T07:02:23","slug":"happy-birthday-sir-arthur-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Sir Arthur!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/ACC_AlbumCover_rev1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/media\/ACC_AlbumCover_rev1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a>Today marks what would have been Sir Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s 97th birthday &#8211; it&#8217;s very unfortunate that this science fiction luminary is no longer with us.<\/p>\n<p>In previous years, I have written a lot about what Sir Arthur meant to the science fiction community, to the space elevator community and to visionaries everywhere &#8211; he was truly one of a kind.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than repeat myself, let me just refer you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1356\" target=\"_blank\">this posting<\/a> I wrote on his birthday back in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>And, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2123\" target=\"_blank\">I also posted just a few days ago<\/a>, the American co-inventor of the modern-day concept of the space elevator, Jerome Pearson, gave the Keynote speech at the 2013 ISEC Space Elevator Convention and he talked about his interactions with Sir Arthur.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very interesting talk and well worth the time to listen to.<\/p>\n<p>RIP Sir Arthur &#8211; we miss you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(The picture is from the back of the album cover &#8211; yes, a vinyl album &#8211; <strong>THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE &#8211; excerpts read by the author<\/strong>.\u00a0 Click on it for a larger version.\u00a0 In this album Sir Arthur reads various passages from the book &#8211; it&#8217;s really a thrill to hear them.\u00a0 The album is long out-of-print, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Arthur-C-Clarke-The-Fountains-Of-Paradise\/release\/1566827\" target=\"_blank\">can be found online<\/a> occasionally.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks what would have been Sir Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s 97th birthday &#8211; it&#8217;s very unfortunate that this science fiction luminary is no longer with us. In previous years, I have written a lot about what Sir Arthur meant to the science fiction community, to the space elevator community and to visionaries everywhere &#8211; he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}