{"id":5868,"date":"2014-11-22T19:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2014-11-22T19:01:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T00:01:55","slug":"better-than-spider-robinsons-fanfic-any-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/11\/22\/better-than-spider-robinsons-fanfic-any-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Better than Spider Robinson&#8217;s fanfic any day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe person who wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/597568?view_full_work=true\">this little <cite>The Rolling Stones<\/cite> vignette<\/a> really has Heinlein&#8217;s writing patterns down pat:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\u201cChief Engineer Grandma?\u201d Meade said sweetly, ducking her head into the room. \u201cWould you please tell Buster to stay out of my garden? He may think he\u2019s clever, but he\u2019s killing my broccoli. I\u2019d tell him myself, but he obviously doesn\u2019t listen to me.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHazel looked across the chessboard at Lowell. \u201cBest do as she says, Junior,\u201d she commented.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cBut she\u2019s wrong about the salinity gradients-\u201d he protested.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cGrandmother dearest,\u201d Meade said, her hands on her hips. \u201cWhy does everyone aboard this ship assume I am incapable of doing math?\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cBeats me,\u201d Hazel said. \u201cI tutored you myself; you can handle a differential with the best of \u2018em.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nReally. The voices, the way the characters speak, that mixture of banter and infodumping, it&#8217;s all prime Heinlein and Kalirush has done a great job capturing it. I wish they&#8217;d do more Heinlein stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The person who wrote this little The Rolling Stones vignette really has Heinlein&#8217;s writing patterns down pat: \u201cChief Engineer Grandma?\u201d Meade said sweetly, ducking her head into the room. \u201cWould you please tell Buster to stay out of my garden? He may think he\u2019s clever, but he\u2019s killing my broccoli. I\u2019d tell him myself, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1818,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom-2","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5869,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions\/5869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}