{"id":127,"date":"2003-08-10T23:44:43","date_gmt":"2003-08-11T06:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/heinlein_everywhere\/"},"modified":"2003-08-10T23:44:43","modified_gmt":"2003-08-11T06:44:43","slug":"heinlein_everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/heinlein_everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Heinlein Everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/bogieblog.typepad.com\/happenings\/2003\/08\/heinlein_books_.html\">Bogie&#8217;s blog <\/a>and found that she had done one of the Quizilla tests.  This time, it was &#8220;Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been a Character In?<br \/>\nIt seems she and I have a lot in common.  We both came up with this:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quizilla.com\/D\/dunkelza\/1052955700_roughwalls.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The cat who walks through walls\"><br \/>You belong in the Cat Who Walks Through Walls.  You<br \/>are creative and cunning.  Your works often<br \/>feel empty to you, though others love them.<br \/>You suspect that the universe and everyone in<br \/>it are just characters in someone else&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quizilla.com\/users\/dunkelza\/quizzes\/Which%20Heinlein%20Book%20Should%20You%20Have%20Been%20A%20Character%20In%3F\/\"> <font size=\"-1\">Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been A Character In?<\/font><\/a><BR> <font size=\"-3\">brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/quizilla.com\">Quizilla<\/a><\/font><br \/>\nI was browsing in another blog&#8230;it might have been the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vodkapundit.com\/\">Vodka Pundit <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quitthat.com\/\">Quit That, <\/a>and came across a list of 50 Things a Man Needs to Know How to Do.  It was a great list, and I wish I could direct you to it.  The comments that followed were enlightening, too, but the one that I enjoyed most was this quote from Lazarus Long in the book &#8220;Time Enough For Love&#8221;:<br \/>\n&#8220;A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.&#8221;<br \/>\nI have a lot to learn, and I might become a vegetarian before I butcher a hog, but the rest is worth attempting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was visiting Bogie&#8217;s blog and found that she had done one of the Quizilla tests. This time, it was &#8220;Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been a Character In? It seems she and I have a lot in common. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/heinlein_everywhere\/\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}