{"id":123,"date":"2002-03-27T23:55:53","date_gmt":"2002-03-28T04:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=123"},"modified":"2002-03-27T23:55:53","modified_gmt":"2002-03-28T04:55:53","slug":"peters_ellis_13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/03\/peters_ellis_13\/","title":{"rendered":"Peters, Ellis: (10) The Pilgrim of Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"75041996\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_75041996\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I was part-way through <strong>Ellis Peters&#8217; <cite>The Pilgrim of Hate<\/cite><\/strong> when I took the romance detour. Coincidentally, when I went back to it, I discovered that the ObYoungLovers of this book broke a <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/03\/roberts_nora_in\/\">rule<\/a> so basic I didn&#8217;t think I had to write it down: Thou shalt not strike one&#8217;s beloved in anger. They also reminded me of a corollary: &#8220;for his\/her own good&#8221; is <em>not<\/em> one of the acceptable rationales for deception.<\/p>\n<p>Besides those, which are fairly minor parts of the book and not egregious in any event, this is a pretty good one. The plot has a nifty concept at its core, and we get to see Olivier again. I do wonder, though, how much tension would be lost in reading these if you happened to know the ups and downs of the civil war between Maud and Stephen; for me, it&#8217;s another layer of what-happens-next from book to book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was part-way through Ellis Peters&#8217; The Pilgrim of Hate when I took the romance detour. Coincidentally, when I went back to it, I discovered that the ObYoungLovers of this book broke a rule so basic I didn&#8217;t think I had to write it down: Thou shalt not strike one&#8217;s beloved in anger. They also &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/03\/peters_ellis_13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peters, Ellis: (10) The Pilgrim of Hate&#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":[48,50,6],"tags":[344],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-brother-cadfael","category-mystery","tag-peters-ellis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","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=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}