{"id":215,"date":"2008-05-25T01:40:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T08:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2008-06-10T01:50:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T08:50:21","slug":"ray-bradbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/just-for-fun\/ray-bradbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Bradbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite authors growing up (and still today) is the great science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury. I simply loved all of the stories and characters he created in his many books on mars, martians and space exploration. I loved how he put his focus on the characters and sories, and not on the technology or the journy to and from. So it was with great pleasure that I was able to attend one of his lectures on the red planet here at UCR. I wish I could say I got my book signed, but he only signed a few and then became tired. The poor guy. He looks pretty old in the picture, but looks even older in person. I think I may have to go and re-read &#8220;The Illustrated Man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ray_bradbury.jpg\" title=\"ray_bradbury.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ray_bradbury.jpg\" alt=\"ray_bradbury.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite authors growing up (and still today) is the great science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury. I simply loved all of the stories and characters he created in his many books on mars, martians and space exploration. I loved how he put his focus on the characters and sories, and not on the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pp_embeds":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","tag-ray-bradbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/needpictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}