{"id":109,"date":"2002-03-04T18:53:41","date_gmt":"2002-03-04T23:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=109"},"modified":"2002-03-04T18:53:41","modified_gmt":"2002-03-04T23:53:41","slug":"wrede_patricia_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/03\/wrede_patricia_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrede, Patricia C.: Raven Ring, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"75002398\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_75002398\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I was in the mood for something anti-sexist, to cleanse my palate (as it were) after <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/03\/white_james_01\/\"><cite>Beginning Operations<\/cite><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/02\/hope_anthony_pr\/\"><cite>The Prisoner of Zenda<\/cite><\/a>. While <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/03\/brust_steven_20_1\/\"><cite>Five Hundred Years After<\/cite><\/a> is certainly <em>not<\/em> sexist, all the same it didn&#8217;t quite reach that annoyance. So I grabbed <strong>Patricia C. Wrede&#8217;s <cite>The Raven Ring<\/cite><\/strong> out of the library, which fit the bill admirably.<\/p>\n<p><cite>The Raven Ring<\/cite> is a small, well-crafted tale of adventure among culture clash. Eleret Salven is a young woman from a culture where all people are trained as warriors; her mother has been killed while in the army, and Eleret journeys into the city to pick up her possessions, according to their traditions. She finds herself rather a fish out of water in a city where gender roles are strictly differentiated; she also learns that someone is after her mother&#8217;s ring, and will stop at nothing, etc. (Technically speaking, the Fate of the World is, possibly, at stake, but it never really feels that way, which is rather refreshing.)<\/p>\n<p>This is not a terribly novel or ambitious book, but it is a solid, entertaining, non-guilty-pleasure way to pass a few hours and shake the last bits of annoyance at sexist books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the mood for something anti-sexist, to cleanse my palate (as it were) after Beginning Operations and The Prisoner of Zenda. While Five Hundred Years After is certainly not sexist, all the same it didn&#8217;t quite reach that annoyance. So I grabbed Patricia C. Wrede&#8217;s The Raven Ring out of the library, which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/03\/wrede_patricia_1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wrede, Patricia C.: Raven Ring, The&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,15],"tags":[446],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-wrede-patricia-c"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}