{"id":61,"date":"2001-11-09T18:55:30","date_gmt":"2001-11-09T23:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=61"},"modified":"2001-11-09T18:55:30","modified_gmt":"2001-11-09T23:55:30","slug":"gabaldon_diana_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/11\/gabaldon_diana_4\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabaldon, Diana: (104.5) Outlandish Companion, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"link_oc\" name=\"link_oc\"><\/a>I&#8217;ve also been reading in piecemeal fashion <strong><cite>The Outlandish Companion<\/cite>, by Diana Gabaldon<\/strong>. As the title suggests, this is a companion to her <cite>Outlander<\/cite> series, published (oddly) before the series was over. I didn&#8217;t buy it when it first came out, but most fortuitously found it used a few days ago. It has some interesting things, like why characters are mushrooms, onions, or hard nuts, a character list, and frequently asked questions, and some less-interesting things (astrology characters for the two main characters?). There are also synopses of the then-existing books, though I didn&#8217;t read those because, well, I just did. It would probably be interesting to see what the author thought the main points were, though.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I didn&#8217;t read every word of this, but it did well for dipping into. It also contains something called the &#8220;Methadone List,&#8221; books that might scratch some of the same itches raised by the series. I&#8217;m a little dubious about some of the titles in it, but that&#8217;s fine because I used the book itself as my methadone&#8212;and, joy of joys, I have <cite>The Fiery Cross<\/cite>, book five, sitting in front of me right now. So, I&#8217;ve got my fix, and don&#8217;t expect to hear from me for however long it takes me to read all 979 pages of it&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve also been reading in piecemeal fashion The Outlandish Companion, by Diana Gabaldon. As the title suggests, this is a companion to her Outlander series, published (oddly) before the series was over. I didn&#8217;t buy it when it first came out, but most fortuitously found it used a few days ago. It has some interesting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/11\/gabaldon_diana_4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gabaldon, Diana: (104.5) Outlandish Companion, 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":[48,78,108],"tags":[219],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-general-fiction","category-outlander","tag-gabaldon-diana"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}