{"id":11000,"date":"2008-02-29T16:24:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T21:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/02\/29\/11000.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:12","slug":"book-report-monstrous-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/02\/29\/book-report-monstrous-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Monstrous Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was going to say that I pick up a Terry Pratchett book from the library every three or four months, but it turns out that it isn&#8217;t true. Unless I am leaving them off the blog, for some reason. Seems unlikely. No, I suspect that it seems as if I read two or three Terry Pratchett books a year, when in fact I don&#8217;t. I wonder why that is.\n<p>Anyway, I did pick up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/books\/9780060013165\/Monstrous_Regiment\/index.aspx\">Monstrous Regiment<\/a>, and I enjoyed it more than I expected to. It&#8217;s one of the ones that introduces new characters in a new setting; I prefer those to the Watch or Wizard ones. Some of the Watch characters do make a (fairly tedious) appearance, but that&#8217;s all minor. Most of our characters are new, and I like them. Particularly Sgt. Jackrum, of course, but the whole crew.\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit tricky, these days, reading light comedy about war, though. I&#8217;m able to do it, but it takes an effort of will not to be offended, or depressed, or angry. I can&#8217;t imagine what it would be like trying to read this sort of thing during a war that was actually being fought in my country. I mean, obviously, that&#8217;s one of the least of the things I can&#8217;t imagine about life during wartime, but I do wonder about it.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger makes random observations, without form and void.<\/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-11000","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\/11000","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=11000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18287,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11000\/revisions\/18287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}