{"id":367,"date":"2005-10-08T23:13:40","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T03:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=367"},"modified":"2005-10-08T23:13:40","modified_gmt":"2005-10-09T03:13:40","slug":"clancy_patriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/10\/clancy_patriot\/","title":{"rendered":"Clancy, Tom: (02) Patriot Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my Tom Clancy bedtime re-reads, I had hopes that <strong><cite>Patriot Games<\/cite><\/strong> would have remained readable, being the second Jack Ryan book and therefore early in Clancy&#8217;s career. Alas, it is not; evidently, Jack has already become perfect in his author&#8217;s eyes, and on this read comes off as a gratingly arrogant and insufferable know-it-all. The sex scenes and the sections from his wife&#8217;s point-of-view are also cringe-inducing, or possibly are meant to depict aliens. I&#8217;d read another four in the continuity back in the day (<cite>The Cardinal of the Kremlin<\/cite>, <cite>Clear and Present Danger<\/cite>, <cite>The Sum of All Fears<\/cite>, and <cite>Executive Orders<\/cite>) but didn&#8217;t bother with them now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my Tom Clancy bedtime re-reads, I had hopes that Patriot Games would have remained readable, being the second Jack Ryan book and therefore early in Clancy&#8217;s career. Alas, it is not; evidently, Jack has already become perfect in his author&#8217;s eyes, and on this read comes off as a gratingly arrogant and insufferable know-it-all. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/10\/clancy_patriot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clancy, Tom: (02) Patriot Games&#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":[48,91,24],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-jack-ryan-continuity","category-thriller","tag-clancy-tom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}