{"id":511,"date":"2007-06-07T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=511"},"modified":"2024-02-11T20:32:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:32:10","slug":"pratchett_bromeliad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/06\/pratchett_bromeliad\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratchett, Terry: <cite>Bromeliad, The<\/cite> (<cite>Truckers, Diggers, Wings<\/cite>) (audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to <strong>Terry Prachett&#8217;s <cite>Bromeliad<\/cite> (<cite>Truckers<\/cite>, <cite>Diggers<\/cite>, <cite>Wings<\/cite>)<\/strong> recently. As I said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/12\/pratchett_terry_2.php#link_bromeliad\">last time<\/a> I read it, I really like these books. I&#8217;d forgotten, until listening, just how broad the problems faced by the nomes are, principally how to respond when the factual underpinnings of your religion are removed and how to establish a society. There&#8217;s a lot at stake here, as much or more as in any given Discworld novel. (Speaking of Discworld: those allergic to the humor in that series have sometimes liked Pratchett&#8217;s non-Discworld YAs, this series and the Johnny books (<cite>Only You Can Save Mankind<\/cite>, <cite>Johnny and the Dead<\/cite>, <cite>Johnny and the Bomb<\/cite>). Both are now in print in the U.S.)<\/p>\n<p>The other thing of note to me about listening to the audiobooks: Bromeliad has four syllables, not three as I&#8217;d guessed. I suppose next time I should really learn to look these things up&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to Terry Prachett&#8217;s Bromeliad (Truckers, Diggers, Wings) recently. As I said last time I read it, I really like these books. I&#8217;d forgotten, until listening, just how broad the problems faced by the nomes are, principally how to respond when the factual underpinnings of your religion are removed and how to establish a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/06\/pratchett_bromeliad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pratchett, Terry: <cite>Bromeliad, The<\/cite> (<cite>Truckers, Diggers, Wings<\/cite>) (audio)&#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":[15,118],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf-and-fantasy","category-single-narrator-audio","tag-pratchett-terry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}