{"id":316,"date":"2005-04-21T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=316"},"modified":"2005-04-21T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T03:04:00","slug":"ennis_garth_hel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/04\/ennis_garth_hel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ennis, Garth: Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"111413912262706424\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_111413912262706424\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Non-cruise books read this week (split up for import into MT): <\/p>\n<p>First up is <strong><cite>Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits<\/cite>, written by Garth Ennis<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve been meaning to try one of these for a while, and apparently this is one of the best places to start; it&#8217;s the semi-famous sequence in which John Constantine is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and weasels his way out of it. I thought it was well and cleverly done, a nice character portrait, and I&#8217;ve basically no interest in reading any more because of that. He&#8217;s a cynical bastard, he&#8217;s clever, Bad Things happen around him, and he hates himself for getting out of those Bad Things when the people around him don&#8217;t. The end. It doesn&#8217;t seem to me that he&#8217;s got many places to go as a character, because he wouldn&#8217;t still be Constantine if you changed any of those. And, well, I don&#8217;t feel the need to spend a lot of time with a person like that.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind Constantine as a bit player, or out of his usual haunts (such as in the fun (work-in-progress) fanfic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedarkarts.org\/authorLinks\/Camwyn\/Hellblazer_Hogwarts\/\"> <cite>Hellblazer: Hogwarts<\/cite><\/a>). So I re-read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/04\/gaiman_neil_boo.php\"><cite>Books of Magic<\/cite><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-cruise books read this week (split up for import into MT): First up is Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits, written by Garth Ennis. I&#8217;ve been meaning to try one of these for a while, and apparently this is one of the best places to start; it&#8217;s the semi-famous sequence in which John Constantine is diagnosed with terminal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/04\/ennis_garth_hel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ennis, Garth: Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits&#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":[55,15],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-ennis-garth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}