{"id":173,"date":"2014-12-19T00:40:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T00:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/?p=173"},"modified":"2021-04-11T12:07:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T12:07:03","slug":"a-continual-snowfall-of-petrochemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"A Continual Snowfall of Petrochemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>automatic music for computers and Yamaha SY synthesisers<br \/>\n1998\/9<\/p>\n<p>And for all its breathtaking size and novelty, the biosphere of Jupiter was a fragile world, a place of mists and foam, of delicate silken threads and paper-thin tissues spun from the continual snowfall of petrochemicals formed by lightning in the upper atmosphere. Few of its constructs were more substantial than soap bubbles; its most terrifying predators could be torn to shreds by even the feeblest of terrestrial carnivores&#8230;<br \/>\nArthur C Clarke, 2010, 1988, Grafton<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-174\" src=\"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/psymac-300x225.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>automatic music for computers and Yamaha SY synthesisers 1998\/9 And for all its breathtaking size and novelty, the biosphere of Jupiter was a fragile world, a place of mists and foam, of delicate silken threads and paper-thin tissues spun from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/?p=173\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhoadley.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}