{"id":10927,"date":"2008-02-03T08:09:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T13:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/02\/03\/10927.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:09","slug":"book-report-the-flight-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/02\/03\/book-report-the-flight-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Flight of the Silver Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger had enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/02\/14\/10443.html\">The Seven Professors of the Far North<\/a> enough to be actually eager for its sequel, which I have now happily read. <a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780399243820,00.html\">The Flight of the Silver Turtle<\/a> has airships, villainous Nazis, and coded messages from long-dead inventors. It\u2019s a hoot. It also has scenes where the intrepid youngsters Use Math and Science to achieve their goals, which comes off a bit Lesson Plan for me, but may well work in context.<br \/>\n<p>A good two-book start for a series of old-fashioned juveniles. Excellent stuff.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger likes a book, which happens more often than you think.<\/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-10927","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\/10927","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=10927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18250,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions\/18250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}