{"id":7445,"date":"2013-03-17T18:45:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T18:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=7445"},"modified":"2023-06-05T00:51:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T00:51:16","slug":"travelling-home-via-arthur-c-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/travelling-home-via-arthur-c-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling home via Arthur C. Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So let me get this right. I walk through a door, sit down in a tube for a few hours, stand up and walk out the tube again. Do that three times, and I won&#8217;t be in Texas any more, but back home in Edinburgh?<\/p>\n<p>Magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. So let me get this right. I walk through a door, sit down in a tube for a few hours, stand up and walk out the tube again. Do that three times, and I won&#8217;t be in Texas any more, but back home in Edinburgh? Magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3645,22,25,3,38],"tags":[91,929,86,454],"class_list":["post-7445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3645","category-conferences","category-link-log","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","category-sxsw","tag-arthur-c-clarke","tag-magic","tag-sxsw","tag-travel","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1W5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67663,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7445\/revisions\/67663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}