{"id":268,"date":"2014-02-16T09:06:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T22:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2016-11-27T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T22:22:28","slug":"foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/lifestream\/reading\/foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Foundation-Novels-Isaac-Asimov\/dp\/0553382578\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=&amp;qid=\">Foundation<\/a><\/em>, the 1951 novel by Isaac Asimov, is set in a galaxy some 12,000 years into our future. Humanity has spread amongst the stars to such an extent they can no longer remember from which planet they originally came. A psychohistorian predicts the downfall of the Empire and a subsequent period of barbarism and puts together a plan to ensure civilisation survives these turbulent years before the galaxy can recover.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, I&#8217;m struggling a little with this title. While the story of <em>Foundation<\/em> is fairly interesting, I find Asimov&#8217;s writing far from gripping. I shall persist, however, because the only book I have ever given up reading is <em>Anna Karenina<\/em>, for good reason. Oh, and some fantasy book that had too many dragons in it.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I finally finished it! In short, it was worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Asimov takes us 12,000 years into humanity&#8217;s future. It&#8217;s quite bleak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}