{"id":1505,"date":"2008-03-18T22:53:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T02:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2008-03-18T22:53:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T02:53:37","slug":"arthur-c-clarke-19172008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurcclarke.net\/\">The significant science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke, has died<\/a>.  In a 2001 Reader&#8217;s Digress&#8211;I mean, Digest&#8211;article, Clarke listed several predictions for future developments.  Several he hoped would not occur, but these perhaps he did hope for.  <\/p>\n<p>In 2012, he suggested &#8220;Aerospace-planes [would] enter commercial service.&#8221; Prince Harry would be the first of Britain&#8217;s royalty to fly in space the following year, and in 2014, &#8220;Construction of Hilton Orbiter Hotel [would] begin by converting the giant shuttle tanks previously allowed to fall back to Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All of that would lead to this prediction for 2017: &#8220;On his hundred birthday, December 16, Sir Arthur C. Clarke is one of the first guests in the Hilton Orbiter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The significant science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke, has died. In a 2001 Reader&#8217;s Digress&#8211;I mean, Digest&#8211;article, Clarke listed several predictions for future developments. Several he hoped would not occur, but these perhaps he did hope for. In 2012, he suggested &#8220;Aerospace-planes [would] enter commercial service.&#8221; Prince Harry would be the first of Britain&#8217;s royalty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1505\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}