{"id":1446,"date":"2009-04-23T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2009-04-23T05:30:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T05:30:16","slug":"babies_bathwater_balconies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1446","title":{"rendered":"Babies, bathwater, balconies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best line from the whole book:<br \/>\n&#8220;No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater, to use one of your ancient clich\u00c3\u00a9s,&#8221; Erasmus said.  &#8220;I threw a baby off a balcony once.  The consequences were extreme.&#8221;<br \/>\nFrom: &#8220;<em>Sandworms of Dune<\/em>,&#8221; by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson; pg. 500.<br \/>\nOkay, so I suppose I should give a bit of context&#8230;  Erasmus is a &#8220;thinking machine,&#8221; or an Artificial Intelligence, so &#8220;emotion&#8221; isn&#8217;t one of its\/his stronger attributes.  I was reading along and hit this and just cracked up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best line from the whole book: &#8220;No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater, to use one of your ancient clich\u00c3\u00a9s,&#8221; Erasmus said. &#8220;I threw a baby off a balcony once. The consequences were extreme.&#8221; From: &#8220;Sandworms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1446\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}