{"id":508,"date":"2007-05-20T21:50:26","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T21:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=508"},"modified":"2024-02-11T20:32:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:32:32","slug":"obrian_14spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/05\/obrian_14spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brian, Patrick: (14) <cite>The Nutmeg of Consolation<\/cite> (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPOILERS for <cite>The Nutmeg of Consolation<\/cite><\/strong>; here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/05\/obrian_14.php\">non-spoiler post<\/a> if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s twice now that Stephen has dodged a serious emotional problem by getting sick at the end of the book. His conflict with Jack over Padeen was genuinely interesting, with deep-held convinctions on both sides and their friendship on the line; and what happens? He gets poisoned by a platypus and <em>voil&agrave;<\/em>, Padeen&#8217;s on the ship. Unless there are serious repercussions in the next book (which I doubt somehow, because Jack&#8217;s not like that), it&#8217;s an authorial cheat. I could kind of rationalize Diana realizing that she loved Stephen after all when he fell down those stairs, you know, with a life <em>really<\/em> without Stephen flashing before her eyes: but this is a deus ex machina, and those are rarely a good idea these days.<\/p>\n<p>(I suspect, by the way, that this is the kind of thing that annoys me far more than anyone else. Oh well; eventually I&#8217;ll feel like listening to the next one.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOILERS for The Nutmeg of Consolation; 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-508","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\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}