{"id":13188,"date":"2010-07-22T17:45:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T21:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/07\/22\/13188.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:56:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:56:02","slug":"hold-me-back-take-away-my-libr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/07\/22\/hold-me-back-take-away-my-libr\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold me back, take away my library card."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So here is where I need your help, Gentle Readers.\n<p>I finally watched <i>Avatar<\/i> on DVD on our little screen at home, but it&#8217;s too late for you to do anything about that. I went up to wash it off me in the tub, and naturally in picking a Bathtub Book, I went for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/11\/08\/10719.html\">the original novel<\/a>. Which, as I have said, is one of my favorites. And I&#8217;m enjoying it, and I&#8217;m thinking <I>that&#8217;s the way you do it<\/i>. I mean, sure, have your main character boink the chief&#8217;s daughter and become a fighter of legendary skill, and sure, have him control the largest possible exotic beasties in a way makes him the foreordained of legend, but <I>you don&#8217;t stop there!<\/i> You have him become the freaking Messiah, the Mahdl&#8217;T, the Lasagna Alamode, the Kumquat Haagendasz, He who can prepare many dishes so they are all ready at once, the Shortnin&#8217;Bread of the Way and the Rightful Duke of the Planet, and ultimately the Padedbrah Emperor of the Known Universe And Its Suburbs.\n<p>So, anyway, I&#8217;m digging on this book, and at this moment I am writing to you, Gentle Readers, I am digging on it enough to want to read the next one in the series.\n<P>Which is where you come in. Because I have only the dimmest of memories of <a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,0_9780441015610,00.html\">Doon, Meshuggeneh<\/a>, and those memories are not what you would call positive. But I am tempted, for the first time in a score of years, and it turns out my library has the thing.\n<p>Please.\n<p>Stop me.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger lacks self-restraint, and seeks restraint elsewhere.<\/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":[195,196,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flim","category-hatchet-job","category-libraries"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188","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=13188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19144,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions\/19144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}