{"id":368,"date":"2005-10-08T23:14:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T03:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=368"},"modified":"2005-10-08T23:14:14","modified_gmt":"2005-10-09T03:14:14","slug":"clancy_rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/10\/clancy_rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Clancy, Tom: (09) Rainbow Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pretty shameful admission, but I did read <strong><cite>Rainbow Six<\/cite><\/strong> some time ago in paperback, after I&#8217;d thought I had given up on Tom Clancy&#8217;s books. (This is in the Jack Ryan continuity, but Jack doesn&#8217;t appear.) I don&#8217;t remember now why I picked it up, but I actually liked it, or at least parts of it. This is kind of two books: in one, a new international anti-terrorist team, Rainbow, responds to a number of hostage situations; in the other, frothing environmentalists plot to kill off all of humanity (except them). No, really.<\/p>\n<p>I liked the hostage rescue stuff; it scratches the same itch as his good stuff. However, the frothing environmentalist sections are unspeakably bad, and I skipped right past them on this re-read. It&#8217;s still a sizable novel even with the awful parts excised, so it served fine as bedtime reading. It is highly unlikely that I&#8217;ll try any other Clancy books, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pretty shameful admission, but I did read Rainbow Six some time ago in paperback, after I&#8217;d thought I had given up on Tom Clancy&#8217;s books. (This is in the Jack Ryan continuity, but Jack doesn&#8217;t appear.) I don&#8217;t remember now why I picked it up, but I actually liked it, or at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/10\/clancy_rainbow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clancy, Tom: (09) Rainbow Six&#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-368","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\/368","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=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}