{"id":506,"date":"2007-05-20T21:49:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T21:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=506"},"modified":"2024-02-11T20:32:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:32:45","slug":"obrian_13spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/05\/obrian_13spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brian, Patrick: (13) <cite>The Thirteen Gun Salute<\/cite> (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPOILERS for <cite>The Thirteen Gun Salute<\/cite><\/strong>; here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/05\/obrian_13.php\">non-spoiler post<\/a> if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Is this the worst cliffhanger to date? I can&#8217;t remember anything so bad. That must have been <em>epic<\/em> levels of bad for those who had to wait for the next book&#8217;s publication.<\/p>\n<p>What I meant about the structure: the failed pursuer and Fox, personalities changed for the worse by life circumstances; Inaccessible and the uncharted reef; and there was something else, too, but I can&#8217;t remember what without re-reading the book now. I think it had something to do with the nasty nature of intelligence work.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, I can&#8217;t believe Stephen did that! A co-worker who&#8217;s currently listening to the series asked me whether he actually killed them, I think because it&#8217;s oblique and so very nasty that it&#8217;s hard to believe.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the next one made me cross and had me put off logging them, so now I can&#8217;t remember what I should about this one. Except, of course, hell of a cliffhanger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOILERS for The Thirteen Gun Salute; 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-506","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\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}