{"id":8496,"date":"2016-08-14T14:09:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T18:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2016-12-02T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T18:39:08","slug":"review-robot-visions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2016\/08\/14\/review-robot-visions\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Robot Visions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/41823\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1388597934m\/41823.jpg\" alt=\"Robot Visions\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/41823\">Robot Visions<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/16667\">Isaac Asimov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1489494633\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the Asimov&#8217;s essays about robots, computers, and cyborgs. They are well done.<\/p>\n<p>The short stories at the front of the book are the same stories published in other books. There are a few new ones. So, if you do not mind re-reading them or have not read other books, then you are good. Otherwise, you should just read the first and second short stories &#8220;Robot Visions&#8221; and &#8220;Too Bad!&#8221; then skip to the last one &#8220;Christmas Without Rodney&#8221; and continue through the essays. Essentially, 347 pages of this book are unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1489494633\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robot Visions by Isaac Asimov My rating: 3 of 5 stars I enjoyed the Asimov&#8217;s essays about robots, computers, and cyborgs. They are well done. The short stories at the front of the book are the same stories published in other books. There are a few new ones. So, if you do not mind re-reading [&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":true,"_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],"tags":[1855,1261,3196],"class_list":["post-8496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","tag-cyborgs","tag-isaac-asimov","tag-robots"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2d2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496","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=8496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}