{"id":673,"date":"2021-05-03T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T10:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=673"},"modified":"2021-05-03T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T10:09:24","slug":"foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2021\/05\/03\/foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finished <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Asimov\">Asimov&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.co.uk\/Foundation-Isaac-Asimov\/dp\/0008117497\/\">Foundation<\/a> yesterday and I really enjoyed it. I had zero expectations, I knew it was something about sci-fi but that&#8217;s all. I have heard from Asimov before but never had the change or interest to read anything from him as sci-fi wasn&#8217;t one of my favourite topics in the last years. But I am glad I did. To be honest, I didnt have the feeling that it was sci-fi. It seemed to me that all the issues plotted in the book (that was written in the 40s) belonged our current time. It is a small book and hook you quickly. I am planning to read the rest of the books and see how it goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing it impressed me was the amount of books (nearly 500) he wrote in his life based in the intro and wikipedia. He was really focus in his craft!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished Asimov&#8217;s Foundation yesterday and I really enjoyed it. I had zero expectations, I knew it was something about sci-fi but that&#8217;s all. I have heard from Asimov before but never had the change or interest to read anything from him as sci-fi wasn&#8217;t one of my favourite topics in the last years. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2021\/05\/03\/foundation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Foundation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}