{"id":194,"date":"2007-07-07T06:45:31","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T12:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2007-07-07T06:49:35","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T12:49:35","slug":"celebrating-the-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the centennial of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heinleinsociety.org\/\">Robert Heinlein<\/a>&#8216;s birth. To mark the occasion, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heinleincentennial.com\/\">convention in Kansas City this weekend<\/a>. I&#8217;m sorry I&#8217;m missing it, but I&#8217;m seldom able to attend out-of-town conventions these days.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s one of my favorite SF authors, and, though I never met him, we have something in common &#8211; besides being graduates of the U. S. Naval Academy (although he predated me by a number of years), we both fenced for Navy. In Starship Troopers, one of the characters shares the last name of <a href=\"http:\/\/fencingonfairfield.com\/halloffame\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=47&#038;Itemid=28\">Andre Deladrier<\/a>, who was my coach at Navy.<\/p>\n<p>In his office in the fencing loft, Coach Deladrier kept a rusty antique rapier, which he once told me had belonged to his incarnation in an earlier life. I can&#8217;t say I believe in reincarnation, but I think I&#8217;d like to know about my earlier lives, if there were any. If there <em>is<\/em> reincarnation, though, I&#8217;m not certain my future incarnations would care to know about this life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the centennial of Robert Heinlein&#8216;s birth. To mark the occasion, there is a convention in Kansas City this weekend. I&#8217;m sorry I&#8217;m missing it, but I&#8217;m seldom able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-all-about-me","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}