{"id":521,"date":"2016-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/science-fiction\/about-421\/"},"modified":"2016-05-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:00:00","slug":"about-421","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wsf\/about-421\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re all waiting for this moment, the instant we know for sure that we\u2019re not alone in this big, cold universe. Regardless of how our first contact actually happens, a good story has to have drama. No one wants to read We Met the Aliens and Gosh, They Were Nice. 27 Contact by Carl \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2019\/11\/safe-image-32.png\" align=\"right\" \/> We\u2019re all waiting for this moment, the instant we know for sure that we\u2019re not alone in this big, cold universe. Regardless of how our first contact actually happens, a good story has to have drama. No one wants to read We Met the Aliens and Gosh, They Were Nice. 27 Contact by Carl \u2026  <a href=\"http:\/\/best-sci-fi-books.com\/27-best-first-contact-books\/\">http:\/\/best-sci-fi-books.com\/27-best-first-contact-books\/<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re all waiting for this moment, the instant we know for sure that we\u2019re not alone in this big, cold universe. Regardless of how our first contact actually happens, a good story has to have drama. No one wants to read We Met the Aliens and Gosh, They Were Nice. 27 Contact by Carl \u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}