{"id":751,"date":"2006-03-16T15:41:20","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T20:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=751"},"modified":"2006-03-16T15:41:20","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T20:41:20","slug":"jerry-pournelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Pournelle"},"content":{"rendered":"

While visiting our downunder friend Dirk Thruster at Arm the Insane<\/a>,(should be a regular read of yours, if it isn’t already) I stumbled onto a link to Jerry Pournelle! My first thoughts were… Well, hell, let me just copy\/paste the Email:<\/p>\n

Hello! My name is (og). I have a teeny website called
\nneanderpundit.com.I have a sometimes reader who calls himself Dirk
\nThruster,
\nwhose website has a link to yours.<\/p>\n

That is how I got here. <\/p>\n

On first arriving here, my thoughts were, in this order:<\/p>\n

“Holy crap, Jerry Pournelle is still alive?”
\n“Holy crap, he has a website?”
\n“Holy crap, he’s Conservative?”
\n“Holy crap, he actually POSTS his EMAIL ADDRESS?”<\/p>\n

Having survived those shockers, I only want to say that I have enjoyed your work over the years, and to thank you for the entertainment you have provided.
\nI write neanderpundit.com for my own amusement. I am extremely pleased when it amuses anyone else.(one of my three readers) I have read your essay on “how to get my job” and frankly, I don’t want it. I couldn’t handle the cut in pay nor the agita. And I can’t write worth a damn, I’m just a hillbilly.
\nI’m fairly sure I have a couple of books in me, but I’ve been talking
\nwith a neurosurgeon about surgically extracting them. Best for all, really.<\/p>\n

Best wishes, and keep up the excellent work. And welcome to the
\nblogroll (I hate the word Blog. Oooh, how I hate it) <\/p>\n

Og<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His response:<\/p>\n

I may have invented the blog. But not that ugly name.<\/p>\n

Thanks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyway, he’s got a great website<\/a>, lots of cool stuff, and he has his head out of his ass on the issues of Iraq and Islam, it’s a good read. Another one of those guys you don’t expect. And don’t expect to be all the cool things he is.
\nGet your ass over there, read his stuff, and buy all his books. NOW!<\/p>\n

And welcome to the blogroll, Mr Pournelle. It’s an honor to link to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While visiting our downunder friend Dirk Thruster at Arm the Insane,(should be a regular read of yours, if it isn’t already) I stumbled onto a link to Jerry Pournelle! My first thoughts were… Well, hell, let me just copy\/paste the Email: Hello! My name is (og). I have a teeny website called neanderpundit.com.I have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}