{"id":12466,"date":"2009-10-18T12:28:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T16:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/10\/18\/12466.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:52:48","slug":"book-report-odds-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/10\/18\/book-report-odds-against\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Odds Against"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gentle Readers may have noticed that Book Reports have been absent from this Tohu Bohu for more than a month. Is this because Your Humble Blogger stopped reading? Not likely. No, this is a thing that seems to happen in the autumn (unless I&#8217;m misremembering, which is fairly likely, and I am not inclined to go back and do actual research in the name of accuracy, preferring to make inaccurate memory-based claims so there) where I get behind in Book Reports, and then get further behind, and then get all cross about how far behind I&#8217;ve let myself go, which makes me reluctant to work on them, which of course means I fall further behind. And then I hit a point, I think usually in November or so but a bit early this year, where I resolve that this year will be my last Book Report year, but that I will at least finish up the calendar year, which means doing some serious catching-up first. Then, in January sometime, I do my Year in Books, which I really enjoy, and decide that it is worth doing the Reports.\n<p>Which it is. So here&#8217;s my Report on <a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780425198001,00.html?Odds_Against_Dick_Francis\">Odds Against<\/a>, the First Syd Halley One. It&#8217;s an early Dick Francis, which means that it isn&#8217;t as dickfranciscan as some of the later ones, although it&#8217;s a Big Deal one, which means that it is more dickfrancesque than some of the later ones which are really dickfrancisish by virtue of being like this one. Clear?\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger gets back on the bicycle.<\/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-12466","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\/12466","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=12466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18895,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions\/18895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}