{"id":15935,"date":"2019-06-11T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15935"},"modified":"2019-06-11T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:15:01","slug":"new-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15935","title":{"rendered":"New Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having given up on <em>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em>, I needed something else to read. Here are my replacement reading choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><em>Good Omens<\/em> by Terry Pratchett &amp; Neil Gaiman: After watching and enjoying the adaptation on TV, I thought it might be fun to read the book. However, the book is very similar, word-for-word at times. Though I will probably finish it, I would recommend to everyone else that they leave more time between watching and reading, or vice versa.<\/li><li><em>Characters &amp; Viewpoint<\/em> by Orson Scott Card: I really enjoyed OSC&#8217;s <em>How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/em>, so I was expecting great things from this book. So far, he&#8217;s gone to great lengths to explain the obvious, and I am boooooooored.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s all still better than zombies in places that they do not belong!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having given up on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I needed something else to read. Here are my replacement reading choices. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett &amp; Neil Gaiman: After watching and enjoying the adaptation on TV, I thought it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15935\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15936,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935\/revisions\/15936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}