{"id":1556,"date":"2005-05-13T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/13\/id-like-to-have-an-argument-please\/"},"modified":"2005-05-13T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T14:59:00","slug":"id-like-to-have-an-argument-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/13\/id-like-to-have-an-argument-please\/","title":{"rendered":"I’d like to have an argument, please"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did a search for “creative commons” on neilgaiman.com<\/a> and turned up this amusing anecdote:<\/p>\n

I think the first thing author Steve Brust ever said to me was “Let’s have an argument. Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light<\/span><\/a> [my link -C]<\/span> is the best book anyone’s ever written.”<\/p>\n

“Ah,” I said, “If you make it best SF book of the 1960s, I’ll go along with it.”<\/p>\n

“Oh. Fair enough.”<\/p>\n

It was the first of a long line of failed arguments.<\/p>\n

— Neil Gaiman, 29 May 2004<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did a search for “creative commons” on neilgaiman.com and turned up this amusing anecdote: I think the first thing author Steve Brust ever said to me was “Let’s have an argument. Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light [my link -C]…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}