{"id":901,"date":"2008-11-07T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T16:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=901"},"modified":"2009-04-06T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T18:01:12","slug":"michael-crichton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/901","title":{"rendered":"Michael Crichton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael Crichton<\/strong> died on Nov. 4th in Los Angeles after a bout with cancer. For those of you who don&#8217;t know, he&#8217;s the author you can thank for classics such as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-7YiEMMcSf4C\"><em>Jurassic park<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Andromeda_Strain\"><em> The Andromeda strain<\/em><\/a>. His novels often use technological or medical twists, and some were turned into movies as well. One of my favorite lines in the movie of <em>Jurassic Park<\/em> was delivered by Jeff Goldblum and was about scientists getting so caught up in whether they <em>could<\/em> do something (in this case  recreate dinosaurs) that they neglected to consider whether they<em> should<\/em>. There&#8217;s a gem for all of you budding scientists out there to take with you.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you&#8217;d like to acquaint yourself with his works, many are available from your University Library, including the two titles mentioned above. Just search the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/\">Library Catalog<\/a> for him as an author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Crichton died on Nov. 4th in Los Angeles after a bout with cancer. For those of you who don&#8217;t know, he&#8217;s the author you can thank for classics such as Jurassic park and The Andromeda strain. His novels often &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/901\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[324,220,263],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-authors","tag-fun-stuff","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}