{"id":8259,"date":"2015-08-19T21:42:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T01:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8259"},"modified":"2015-08-25T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:36:54","slug":"review-the-martian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2015\/08\/19\/review-the-martian\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Martian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18401393\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1377968571m\/18401393.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Martian\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18401393\">The Martian<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/6540057\">Andy Weir<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1359001108\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      This was lovingly written by an obvious space nerd. Weir explains large amounts of science and engineering in a very accessible format. As only a true space nerd would do, there are lots of jokes and puns. Not everyone will like them, but they enhanced the story for me.<\/p>\n<p>The story works as a framework to describe the technical challenges to life on Mars. The Apollo missions were visits of a few short days and Whatney, our hero, was planned to have a few short weeks on Mars. Only it goes all wrong. <\/p>\n<p>What I enjoyed most was <strong><br \/>\n  <em>FEELING<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong> the isolation. So many authors try but fall flat.<\/p>\n<p>Given the fiction part of science-fiction, the problems arrive one after another to give Whatney something to solve without too much of a break to recover. A normal mortal would have broken under the stress. But, then, NASA would not send a normal mortal to Mars. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1359001108\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Martian by Andy Weir My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was lovingly written by an obvious space nerd. Weir explains large amounts of science and engineering in a very accessible format. As only a true space nerd would do, there are lots of jokes and puns. Not everyone will like them, but they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256,56],"tags":[3067,2706,3065,3066,214,3033],"class_list":["post-8259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","category-movies-films-tv","tag-andy-weir","tag-book-review","tag-mars","tag-martian","tag-nasa","tag-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-29d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}