{"id":18,"date":"2001-08-23T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2001-08-23T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=18"},"modified":"2001-08-23T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2001-08-23T15:04:08","slug":"kay_guy_gavriel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/08\/kay_guy_gavriel\/","title":{"rendered":"Kay, Guy Gavriel: Sarantine Mosaic (Sailing to Sarantium; Lord of Emperors)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"5252879\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_5252879\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m re-reading <strong>Guy Gavriel Kay&#8217;s Sarantine Mosaic diptych<\/strong>, because, well, I felt like it. Okay, I&#8217;d seen the paperbacks in the library and thought about getting them out, but decided to wait until I was at home, and they&#8217;ve also come up recently on Usenet. I&#8217;ve just finished the first, <cite>Sailing to Sarantium<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>I already said quite a lot about the book in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/reviews\/sarantium.html\">review<\/a>, so I won&#8217;t repeat myself here. Re-reading the first book when in a slightly scattered frame of mind, though, is a dangerous thing, because I find myself chasing down bits in the second book (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/reviews\/lordofemperors.html\"><cite>Lord of Emperors<\/cite><\/a>) that come out of chance comments in the first, or are why I like this character that was just introduced so much, or, well, you get the picture. As a result, I&#8217;ve already read most of the sequel in unordered chunks during the past few days, without &#8220;officially&#8221; having started it. (Also, while I&#8217;m very fond of the first, it is paced considerably more slowly than the second, which is packed with amazing stuff.) As a consequence, I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m going to read it straight through now. I might; I really love these books. They&#8217;re both out in paper now; what are you waiting for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m re-reading Guy Gavriel Kay&#8217;s Sarantine Mosaic diptych, because, well, I felt like it. Okay, I&#8217;d seen the paperbacks in the library and thought about getting them out, but decided to wait until I was at home, and they&#8217;ve also come up recently on Usenet. I&#8217;ve just finished the first, Sailing to Sarantium. I already &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/08\/kay_guy_gavriel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kay, Guy Gavriel: Sarantine Mosaic (Sailing to Sarantium; Lord of Emperors)&#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":[261],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-kay-guy-gavriel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","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=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}