{"id":73,"date":"2011-06-22T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/opening-salvo\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T02:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T02:36:00","slug":"opening-salvo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/opening-salvo\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Salvo"},"content":{"rendered":"
Welcome to Futures Past and Present<\/i>.\u00a0 This blog will be similar to my other blog, Adventures Fantastic<\/i><\/a>, only instead I’ll be focusing on science fiction here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There will be some differences, though.\u00a0 For one, as far as fantasy is concerned, Adventures Fantastic<\/i> tends to stick to relatively new fantasy (or at least recent), with the exception of certain classic authors, such as Robert E. Howard.\u00a0 The historical adventure and occasional historical fact post there are a little more broad ranging.\u00a0 I’m going to take a more historical approach here in that I’ll strive to have a fairly even mix of old and new science fiction.\u00a0 There are a number of authors who have been forgotten that I’ll try to bring to your attention.\u00a0 If you’ve ever read one of Bud Webster’s Pat Masters<\/i> columns, you know what I’m talking about.\u00a0 Where Bud tends to focus on the authors and their oeuvre as a whole, I’ll look more specifically at individual works.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course I’ll review as many new science fiction books, stories, and magazines as I can.\u00a0 That should be about a third of what’s covered here.<\/p>\n

And the final third will be me blogging about whatever I have on my shelves that I either finally get around to reading or read again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In other words, this is going to be a wide ranging blog focusing on as many aspects of science fiction we can reasonably cover.\u00a0 I’m going to do more experimenting with the format and layout than I do with Adventures Fantastic<\/i>, so don’t be too surprised if things change on a regular basis.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Futures Past and Present.\u00a0 This blog will be similar to my other blog, Adventures Fantastic, only instead I’ll be focusing on science fiction here.\u00a0 There will be some differences, though.\u00a0 For one, as far as fantasy is concerned, Adventures Fantastic tends to stick to relatively new fantasy (or at least recent), with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[129,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greetings","category-mission-statement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-1b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}