{"id":161,"date":"2006-10-09T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/?p=161"},"modified":"2006-10-09T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T02:37:00","slug":"ian-mcdonald-on-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/2006\/10\/09\/ian-mcdonald-on-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McDonald on science fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian McDonald has <a href=\"http:\/\/ianmcdonald.livejournal.com\/44893.html\">a great post about what sf is<\/a> (and perhaps what it should aspire to be) over on his LJ:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As I said, entertainment is where we all begin, not where we end up. Call me fussy, but I&#8217;m not after your beer money. Beer is always good, but keep it for the beer: I&#8217;m after the money you spend on beautiful, precious things. The ornaments, the treasures. The things that really matter to you. The money you spend on lovers, I want that money. The money you spend on plastic surgery, drugs, hopes, faith and fetishes&#8211;the things that change your life, that make and remake you: that&#8217;s the money I want. Keep your beer money, you&#8217;ve worked for it, I want your triple-distilled whiskey money.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go and read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian McDonald has a great post about what sf is (and perhaps what it should aspire to be) over on his LJ: As I said, entertainment is where we all begin, not where we end up. Call me fussy, but I&#8217;m not after your beer money. Beer is always good, but keep it for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/2006\/10\/09\/ian-mcdonald-on-science-fiction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ian McDonald on science fiction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}