{"id":59,"date":"2001-11-07T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2001-11-07T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=59"},"modified":"2001-11-07T11:00:55","modified_gmt":"2001-11-07T16:00:55","slug":"mccaffrey_anne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/11\/mccaffrey_anne\/","title":{"rendered":"McCaffrey, Anne: Skies of Pern, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"6941050\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_6941050\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I got <strong>Anne McCaffrey&#8217;s <cite>The Skies of Pern<\/cite><\/strong> out of the library because, while I no longer like the books enough to buy them, I&#8217;m still vaguely interested in what&#8217;s going on with the world. I mean, I read (counts on fingers) about ten of the things all in a row when I was younger, and while a lot of the content now bothers me, I still feel some attachment to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, this latest book suggests that I shouldn&#8217;t bother reading them anymore, I should just find spoilers somewhere. The prose and the tell-don&#8217;t-show characters combined to leave me completely unengaged in the story, and the plot is very oddly paced. Also, I really don&#8217;t believe that in the hundreds of years since dragons have existed on Pern, a situation similar to the one in the book hasn&#8217;t come up.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. I got it out of the library, so I shall not regret the time spent; I just won&#8217;t read books about new events on Pern, as well as old ones (I skipped <cite>The Masterharper of Pern<\/cite> because how many times can one really read about the same events?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got Anne McCaffrey&#8217;s The Skies of Pern out of the library because, while I no longer like the books enough to buy them, I&#8217;m still vaguely interested in what&#8217;s going on with the world. I mean, I read (counts on fingers) about ten of the things all in a row when I was younger, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/11\/mccaffrey_anne\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;McCaffrey, Anne: Skies of Pern, The&#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":[48,15],"tags":[309],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-mccaffrey-anne"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}