{"id":230,"date":"2003-09-07T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2003-09-07T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=230"},"modified":"2003-09-07T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2003-09-07T18:55:40","slug":"doyle_arthur_co_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/09\/doyle_arthur_co_7\/","title":{"rendered":"Conan Doyle, Arthur: (08-09) His Last Bow; The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"106296094026495779\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_106296094026495779\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>When I go on vacations that involve airplanes, I take two kinds of books with me. (Paperbacks; I think hardcovers are an inefficient use of space when flying; so, <cite>The Merlin Conspiracy<\/cite> must wait yet again.) I take a set of short stories or some other form of reading that is well-suited being read in small chunks before bed. And I take a big thick book, in case I stay awake on a plane and want to immerse myself in something. This vacation, a Sherlock Holmes omnibus was before-bed reading, and I read <strong><cite>His Last Bow<\/cite> and <cite>The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes<\/cite><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I have now completed the Holmes canon. Finishing those provided more of a sense of accomplishment than actual enjoyment: not that they were terrible, but the plots were definitely getting tired by the end. Also, the two Holmes-narrated stories are just as insufferable as you&#8217;d except. But hey, now I can read <cite>The Beekeeper&#8217;s Apprentice<\/cite>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I go on vacations that involve airplanes, I take two kinds of books with me. (Paperbacks; I think hardcovers are an inefficient use of space when flying; so, The Merlin Conspiracy must wait yet again.) I take a set of short stories or some other form of reading that is well-suited being read in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/09\/doyle_arthur_co_7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conan Doyle, Arthur: (08-09) His Last Bow; The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes&#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":[6,16,117],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-sherlock-holmes-mystery","category-short-fiction","tag-conan-doyle-arthur"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}