{"id":28100,"date":"2026-01-02T22:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28100"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:49:58","slug":"isaac-asimov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28100","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Asimov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the birthday of Isaac Asimov. He was born on this day in 1920.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid I loved science fiction. I voraciously read Heinlein, Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke and all the rest.<\/p>\n<p>But my very favorite was Asimov. I wanted to live in the worlds that he created. Even the dystopian ones.<\/p>\n<p>Given recent advances in AI, I think we are starting to catch up to the visions that he dreamed up all those decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow it was more fun on the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the birthday of Isaac Asimov. He was born on this day in 1920. When I was a kid I loved science fiction. I voraciously read Heinlein, Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke and all the rest. But my very favorite was Asimov. I wanted to live in the worlds that he created. Even the dystopian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Isaac Asimov&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28101,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28100\/revisions\/28101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}