{"id":451,"date":"2006-09-10T14:25:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T14:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=451"},"modified":"2024-03-24T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T15:20:10","slug":"obrian_09spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/09\/obrian_09spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brian, Patrick: (09) <cite>Treason&#8217;s Harbor<\/cite> (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPOILERS for <cite>Treason&#8217;s Harbor<\/cite><\/strong>; here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/09\/obrian_09.php\">non-spoiler post<\/a> if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Andrew Wray, my goodness me. Was the third bird the death of his father-in-law? If so&mdash;nasty. <em>That&#8217;s<\/em> no idealism. (This is, of course, the bit that I don&#8217;t foresee being resolved next book.)<\/p>\n<p>Love the diving bell; I wonder if Stephen will commission another, or give up because it would make Jack&#8217;s head explode?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say &#8220;poor <cite>Surprise<\/cite>,&#8221; except that I&#8217;m pretty sure that they go to the far side of the world in her. Poor Jack, at least.<\/p>\n<p>And poor Pullings! I felt quite sorry for him as he was left behind.<\/p>\n<p>Third and last, poor Ponto. At least we didn&#8217;t see his death as we did his rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Land-based, but not domestic; Diana is going to be very angry indeed. Love the bit about Sophie not understanding for a week and then shooting the luckless man.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the result of their mission to intercept the galley coming pretty much from the start, which made it less enjoyable, I think; on the other hand, it might have felt a cheat to leave Wray&#8217;s treason a secret until however far down the series. Tough call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOILERS for Treason&#8217;s Harbor; 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-451","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\/451","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=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}