{"id":1010,"date":"2009-04-30T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2010-03-29T08:01:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T07:01:30","slug":"the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress-robert-a-heinlein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress-robert-a-heinlein\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert A. Heinlein)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sci-Fi, 8\/10 &#8211; April 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/The_Moon_Is_A_Harsh_Mistress.jpg?resize=100%2C163&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The_Moon_Is_A_Harsh_Mistress\" title=\"The_Moon_Is_A_Harsh_Mistress\" width=\"100\" height=\"163\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1191\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[asa tomButton]0450002314[\/asa]\n<\/td>\n<td>\nThe story follows the revolution of a Lunar penal colony against earth for political freedom. The people of the moon don&#8217;t have any conventional weapons but it is &#8220;uphill&#8221; of earth (in terms of gravity) which means it can throw rocks down apon earth with a near-nuclear impact. The second secret-weapon of the moon is a recently sentient super-computer called Mike which has the brains to target the rocks and attend to intricate politics as well.<\/p>\n<p>This book was written in the 60&#8217;s but holds up flawlessly. I particularly enjoyed the Luna-speak, a shorthand pidgin English that the people on the moon speak. It&#8217;ll drive English teachers nuts.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sci-Fi, 8\/10 &#8211; April 2009 [asa tomButton]0450002314[\/asa] The story follows the revolution of a Lunar penal colony against earth for political freedom. The people of the moon don&#8217;t have any conventional weapons but it is &#8220;uphill&#8221; of earth (in terms of gravity) which means it can throw rocks down apon earth with a near-nuclear impact. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-sci-fi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}