{"id":374,"date":"2005-11-21T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T03:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=374"},"modified":"2005-11-21T22:00:51","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T03:00:51","slug":"obrian_03spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/11\/obrian_03spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brian, Patrick: (03) H.M.S. Surprise (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPOILERS for <cite>H.M.S. Surprise<\/cite><\/strong>; here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/11\/obrian_03.php\">non-spoiler post<\/a> if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>I said that <cite>Post Captain<\/cite> was a book where Jack gets put through the wringer; <cite>H.M.S. Surprise<\/cite> is a book where Stephen perhaps <em>literally<\/em> gets put through the wringer. (O&#8217;Brian&#8217;s glossing of details was a sound decision.) First captivity, then Dil, then Canning (and another movie incident with the self-surgery), then Diana&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. (Speaking of glossing, I feel like I&#8217;m supposed to know where the &#8220;ancient small iron ring&#8221; came from, but I can&#8217;t bring it to mind now. If we&#8217;ve seen it before, it would have been nice to be reminded of that.)<\/p>\n<p>At sea, there was the tense rounding of the Cape (I was surprised that they went first to Brazil to get to India, but it appears that this is a matter of prevailing winds), and the driving-off of Linois&#8217;s squadron from the East India Company&#8217;s convoy. And Sophie joining them off Madeira.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for me to know what to think of Diana. I can&#8217;t like anyone who treats Stephen so, and yet I have some sympathy for her situation, which O&#8217;Brian paints clearly. I can&#8217;t imagine Diana happy, actually, absent a genderswitch or time travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOILERS for H.M.S. Surprise; here&#8217;s the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,48,4],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aubrey-maturin","category-books","category-historical","tag-obrian-patrick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","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=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}