{"id":477,"date":"2008-03-03T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2008-03-03T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:29:25","slug":"mini-reviews-forthcoming-old-mans-ghost-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/mini-reviews-forthcoming-old-mans-ghost-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-reviews forthcoming: Old Man&#8217;s Ghost Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ripped through John Scalzi&#8217;s <i>Old Man&#8217;s War<\/i> and <i>The Ghost Brigades<\/i> in a matter of just a couple of weeks &#8211; a bit of a triumph for myself, I should admit. I&#8217;m used to milking every page of a book for weeks, even months. It took me a year just to get through the first <i>Song of Ice and Fire<\/i> novel. So I don&#8217;t know if my voracious devouring of Scalzi&#8217;s novels is telling of the quality of his craft, or the changing nature of my reading habits. In either case, I&#8217;ll be attempting to get mini-reviews up of the books sometime within the next day or so.<\/p>\n<p>I know. This would all be done already if I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_Man's_War#BrainPal\">BrainPal<\/a> installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ripped through John Scalzi&#8217;s Old Man&#8217;s War and The Ghost Brigades in a matter of just a couple of weeks &#8211; a bit of a triumph for myself, I should admit. I&#8217;m used to milking every page of a book for weeks, even months. It took me a year just to get through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[450,314],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-literature-2","tag-reviews","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}