{"id":591,"date":"2008-03-29T22:03:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T22:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=591"},"modified":"2024-02-04T17:18:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:18:10","slug":"obrian_17spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/03\/obrian_17spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brian, Patrick: (17) <cite>The Commodore<\/cite> (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPOILERS for <cite>The Commodore<\/cite><\/strong>; here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/03\/obrian_17.php\">non-spoiler post<\/a> if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>I thought the eventual battle with the French was given too little page space&mdash;both the battle itself and the happenings on the two troubled ships. I also wondered if the resolution of the Diana subplot was a little abrupt or easy. On the other hand, &#8220;you must never go to sea any more&#8221; holds out some promise for future conflict.<\/p>\n<p>(The question of Brigid&#8217;s possible developmental disorder only gave me a few twinges, as thankfully I was listening to this <em>after<\/em> the amnio ruled out Down Syndrome in FutureBaby (the previously-mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/roller_coaster_pregnancy.php\">difficult time<\/a>). Weirdly, instead my reaction was that it was dramatically ineffective because such a short time passes between Brigid&#8217;s introduction and her speaking to Padeen&mdash;just ten pages.)<\/p>\n<p>Is this finally, finally the end of the treason arc? Even if not (and don&#8217;t tell me!), it was fun here, especially the biscuit-toss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOILERS for The Commodore; 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-591","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\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}