{"id":11637,"date":"2008-11-13T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T21:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/11\/13\/11637.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:49:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:49:47","slug":"book-report-dragonsinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/11\/13\/book-report-dragonsinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Dragonsinger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I really haven&#8217;t re-read any of Anne McCaffery&#8217;s Pern books in four years. It&#8217;s plausible. Although it&#8217;s also plausible that I did and kept it a deep, dark secret. And if I really didn&#8217;t read them, why do I have a paperback of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsays.com\/content\/book.cfm?sid=33&amp;pid=423113\">Dragonsinger<\/a>? Well, anyway. I was feeling lousy, and wanted to soak in the tub and read something comforting, and that hit the proverbial.<br \/>\n<p>I loved these books when I was a little one. It&#8217;s embarrassing now. The character is just a trifle Mary Sue, if you know what I mean. She turns out to be good at <I>everything<\/i>, and <i>everybody<\/i> who likes her is a good guy, and <i>everybody<\/i> who is mean to her is bad, and people keep giving her things, and the Head of Everything Good in the World thinks she is wonderful and special and spends all his free time with her.<br \/>\n<p>Which is very nice and comforting and empowering and all that shit. But also just a little embarrassing, now that I&#8217;m thirty-<I>glob<\/i>.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger goes home again, to find that everything seems really small. Was it always this small? I remember it being bigger, somehow.<\/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-11637","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\/11637","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=11637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18582,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637\/revisions\/18582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}