{"id":330,"date":"2005-06-05T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=330"},"modified":"2005-06-05T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T03:01:00","slug":"clancy_tom_red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/06\/clancy_tom_red\/","title":{"rendered":"Clancy, Tom: Red Storm Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"111802690375951226\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_111802690375951226\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The best 50 cents I&#8217;ve spent this year went to buy <strong>Tom Clancy&#8217;s <cite>Red Storm Rising<\/cite><\/strong> at the fundraiser outside the school budget vote. This was Clancy&#8217;s second book, a brick of a WWIII story published in the late 1980s&#8212;back when someone could claim that if NATO were neutralized by a successful invasion of Germany, America wouldn&#8217;t react to an invasion of the Persian Gulf aimed at taking over the oil fields. (A catastrophic oil-field fire is the event that kicks off the novel.) When I was a kid, I read my dad&#8217;s copy and enjoyed it; now, I was able to parcel it out over a couple of weeks as bedtime reading. It was perfect for that purpose: absolutely no characters to get emotionally involved with, a story that I remembered the broad outlines of, and soothing little tactical puzzles or military info-dumping in convenient chapter-sized chunks. (Also, its politics aren&#8217;t distracting, being limited to a strong sympathy for the professional military ethos and a distaste for the political system of the USSR.) I&#8217;ve just acquired copies of <cite>The Hunt for Red October<\/cite> and (though I&#8217;m somewhat ashamed to admit to reading later Clancy novels) <cite>Rainbow Six<\/cite>, and look forward to many more weeks of soothing bedtime technobabble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best 50 cents I&#8217;ve spent this year went to buy Tom Clancy&#8217;s Red Storm Rising at the fundraiser outside the school budget vote. This was Clancy&#8217;s second book, a brick of a WWIII story published in the late 1980s&#8212;back when someone could claim that if NATO were neutralized by a successful invasion of Germany, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/06\/clancy_tom_red\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clancy, Tom: Red Storm Rising&#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":[48,24],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-thriller","tag-clancy-tom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}