{"id":15186,"date":"2016-01-20T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2016\/01\/20\/15186.html"},"modified":"2016-01-20T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:58:00","slug":"sh-flashback-the-welsh-squadro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2016\/01\/20\/sh-flashback-the-welsh-squadro\/","title":{"rendered":"SH Flashback: &#8220;The Welsh Squadron,&#8221; by Margaret Ronald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new entry in my weekly <cite>Strange Horizons<\/cite> retrospective. The format of this entry is the same as before: I'll link to a story, then provide a brief non-spoilery description, then add some further discussion after a spoiler warning. This time, I'll also provide a link to the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/pages\/strange_horizons_flashbacks.html\">list of Flashback stories<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>This week's <cite>Strange Horizons<\/cite> Flashback story:<\/p>\n<dl>\n  <dt>&ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2006\/20060703\/squadron-f.shtml\">The Welsh Squadron<\/a>,&rdquo; by Margaret Ronald<\/dt>\n  <dd>During the Blitz, a beleaguered British air squadron acquires some mysterious and unexpected new members. I'm not normally much into war stories, but when I do like them, this is the sort I like. I particularly love the last third or so of this. Published in 2006, in two parts. (7,200 words)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\n<p class=\"centered\"><strong>SPOILERS FOLLOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even though I have only a small knowledge of Arthuriana, I enjoyed the ways that Arthur stuff played out in this story. And I liked the compelling portrayals of Nate and his squadron, of Idris and his followers, of the exhaustion and difficulties of war. But what I loved most about the story was Nate's request to join them, and Idris's choice at the end to stay. I'm a sucker for noble bravery and heroic self-sacrifice in fiction.<\/p>\n<p>And this is yet another story that makes me cry every time I read it. I promise that's not the only criterion for being a Flashback story.<\/p>\n<p>This one (like others of these Flashback stories) was kind of fun to edit, too; I went way overboard on fact-checking, delving into day-by-day chronologies of the Blitz and a variety of other sources, and Margaret was kind enough to make a bunch of excellent changes to accommodate my queries.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new entry in my weekly Strange Horizons retrospective. The format of this entry is the same as before: I&#8217;ll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","category-strange-horizons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}