{"id":712,"date":"2010-11-05T21:56:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=712"},"modified":"2024-01-21T15:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T20:22:45","slug":"caudwell_sarah_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2010\/11\/caudwell_sarah_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Caudwell, Sarah: (01-03) <cite>Thus Was Adonis Murdered; The Shortest Way to Hades; The Sirens Sang of Murder<\/cite> (re-read)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is as good a time as any to note that I re-read <strong>the first three of Sarah Caudwell&#8217;s novels<\/strong> semi-recently (<cite>Thus Was Adonis Murdered<\/cite>, <cite>The Shortest Way to Hades<\/cite>, and <cite>The Sirens Sang of Murder<\/cite>); I&#8217;ve been telling myself that I&#8217;ll also re-read the fourth, but I think it&#8217;s time to admit that&#8217;s not happening any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>I only have a few notes to add to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/03\/caudwell_sarah.php\">initial comments<\/a>. First, I wasn&#8217;t quite right when I said that same-sex relationships were unremarked; they are called &#8220;unorthodox,&#8221; but there&#8217;s no hint of a moral dimension to that characterization. Second (and spoilery; ROT-13, see sidebar), va abar bs gur obbxf qbrf n zheqrere tb gb gevny, which I find interesting considering that they were written by a lawyer (and a tax planner, considering the third). And third: no, seriously, why <em>are<\/em> they all friends with Hilary?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, still highly delicious. And next time I will re-read the fourth to see how I think it stands in relation to the rest now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is as good a time as any to note that I re-read the first three of Sarah Caudwell&#8217;s novels semi-recently (Thus Was Adonis Murdered, The Shortest Way to Hades, and The Sirens Sang of Murder); I&#8217;ve been telling myself that I&#8217;ll also re-read the fourth, but I think it&#8217;s time to admit that&#8217;s not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2010\/11\/caudwell_sarah_1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Caudwell, Sarah: (01-03) <cite>Thus Was Adonis Murdered; The Shortest Way to Hades; The Sirens Sang of Murder<\/cite> (re-read)&#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":[48,85,6],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-hilary-tamar","category-mystery","tag-caudwell-sarah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","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=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}