{"id":11251,"date":"2008-06-24T08:30:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/06\/24\/11251.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:43","slug":"book-report-the-magicians-of-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/06\/24\/book-report-the-magicians-of-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Magicians of Caprona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger was looking for a book <I>without<\/I> thump, if you know what I mean, and picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/10\/26\/10035.html\">The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume II<\/a>, from which I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/books\/9780060511524\/The_Magicians_of_Caprona_AER\/index.aspx\">The Magicians of Caprona<\/a>. It&#8217;s a wonderful story. The scary bits are just the right amount of scary, and the funny bits aren&#8217;t too funny, and the <i>dues ex machina<\/i> is telegraphed from the beginning, that is, the whole point of the plot is to get the Gd down from the machine, so when they finally do and all their problems are solved in an instant, rather than it being disappointing, it works.<br \/>\n<p>For me, anyway.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger reads half a good book, or the good have of a book, or what you will.<\/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-11251","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\/11251","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=11251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18411,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251\/revisions\/18411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}