{"id":10874,"date":"2008-01-13T08:21:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T13:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/01\/13\/10874.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:57:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:57:47","slug":"book-report-slan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/01\/13\/book-report-slan\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Slan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger spotted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor-forge.com\/slan\">Slan<\/a> on the New Books shelf of the local library, and thought <i>Hunh, I&#8217;ve never read that<\/i>, picked it up, and read it. So, score one for Tor and the reissue. I don&#8217;t think we get to score one for Your Humble Blogger, though.<br \/>\n<p>You know all the things about Golden Age specfic that people hate? This has them. Terrible characterizations, clunky writing, stilted and portentous dialogue, blinkered ethnocentrism, painful sexism, implied but clear racism. There are lots of bits of the book that are of historical interest, and the central idea of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slan\">slan<\/a> is pretty important, I suppose, in the development of specfic and of fandom. Still.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger forgets to write one of these intros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18226,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions\/18226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}