{"id":654,"date":"2009-02-15T21:11:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T21:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=654"},"modified":"2024-01-24T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T13:39:09","slug":"obrian_18spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2009\/02\/obrian_18spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brian, Patrick: (18) <cite>The Yellow Admiral<\/cite> (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post contains <strong>book destroying SPOILERS<\/strong> for Patrick O&#8217;Brian&#8217;s <cite>The Yellow Admiral<\/cite>. The non-spoiler post is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2009\/02\/obrian_18.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>I find the title puzzling. Jack isn&#8217;t yellowed, Stranraer has a command and is not, I would say, a coward, and no other admirals make significant appearances.<\/p>\n<p>It took me a ridiculously long time to understand that the enclosure stuff was not a pre-sea-plot interlude but was the plot. Which was less thrilling, really, especially being back on the Brest blockade, but I did love the golden vacation at the end and the sudden (to me, not knowing the historical timeline in sufficient detail) call to arms.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure I quite believe that Sophie would take a lover, but I recognize that O&#8217;Brian worked really hard in pursuit of plausibility. I have more trouble believing that it will benefit Jack &amp; Sophie&#8217;s marriage in the long run, but oh well.<\/p>\n<p>Aaaand my brain is cheese and I can&#8217;t think of anything else to say about this now. I will add comments if I recall things later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post contains book destroying SPOILERS for Patrick O&#8217;Brian&#8217;s The Yellow Admiral. The non-spoiler post is here.<\/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-654","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\/654","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=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}