{"id":967,"date":"2008-11-27T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2008\/11\/27\/always-glad-for-books\/"},"modified":"2008-11-27T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T18:44:00","slug":"always-glad-for-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2008\/11\/27\/always-glad-for-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Always glad for books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little thing I am thankful for: My Subterranean Press hardcover omnibus of <i>The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox<\/i> arrived this week. I can exchange two softcovers in my library now for a single hardcover, and perhaps not lose it this time (I&#8217;ve already lost one paperback of <i>Bridge of Birds<\/i> and one of <i>Eight Skilled Gentlemen<\/i>). It&#8217;s quite a shame that Hughart won&#8217;t be writing any more of them, but as he says on the flyleaf, he could feel &#8220;formula&#8221; creeping up on the tales, and that would be a worse shame.<\/p>\n<p>If only certain other authors had stopped while they were still ahead of their own creation. On the other hand, a check with enough zeros on the right can be a powerful incentive to any writer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little thing I am thankful for: My Subterranean Press hardcover omnibus of The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox arrived this week. I can exchange two softcovers in my library now for a single hardcover, and perhaps not lose it this time (I&#8217;ve already lost one paperback of Bridge of Birds and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,98,17],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-fB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}