{"id":732,"date":"2011-12-06T11:07:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T11:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=732"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:38:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:38:39","slug":"pratchett_08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2011\/12\/pratchett_08\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratchett, Terry: (08) <cite>Guards! Guards!<\/cite> (re-read)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am skipping to the next Discworld re-read book, <strong><cite>Guards! Guards!<\/cite><\/strong>, because I have only a few minutes before the Pip wakes up and I have only two things to add to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/01\/pratchett_terry_6.php\">older post<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/skygiants.dreamwidth.org\/267141.html\">Becca&#8217;s observations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>One, from now on, I will probably never stop wanting to immediately re-read <cite>Night Watch<\/cite> after this book to try and reconcile them, but I will most likely never actually do it because my brain isn&#8217;t good at that kind of extrapolation.<\/p>\n<p>Two, literally one paragraph after the one containing this footnote,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The pronoun [him] is used by dwarfs to indicate both sexes. All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Carrot refers to the dwarf with whom he had an understanding as &#8220;she&#8221; and does so consistently throughout the book. Whee, heteronormativity. (Something the series has recently gotten better about, though.)<\/p>\n<p>(See also <a href=\"http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/10603\">Modern Love<\/a> by Penknife.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am skipping to the next Discworld re-read book, Guards! Guards!, because I have only a few minutes before the Pip wakes up and I have only two things to add to my older post and Becca&#8217;s observations: One, from now on, I will probably never stop wanting to immediately re-read Night Watch after this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2011\/12\/pratchett_08\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pratchett, Terry: (08) <cite>Guards! Guards!<\/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":[48,64,15],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-discworld","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-pratchett-terry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}