{"id":13265,"date":"2010-09-03T16:21:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T20:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/09\/03\/13265.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:58:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:58:02","slug":"book-report-the-black-arrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/09\/03\/book-report-the-black-arrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Black Arrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780451529169,00.html?The_Black_Arrow_Robert_Louis_Stevenson\">The Black Arrow<\/a> last Spring for obvious reasons. Well, obvious if you know the book. Because Richard III is a main character.\n<p>It&#8217;s a kid&#8217;s book, more or less, a Boy&#8217;s Adventure book anyway, by Robert Louis Stevenson, who described it as nothing but tushery from beginning to end. Tushery is a great word, by the way&#8212;it&#8217;s the overuse of faux-archaic language, and by extension, the kind of crappy writing that overuses faux-archaic language, i&#8217;faith. And he was right, about <I>The Black Arrow<\/i> that is. And about tushery in general, I suppose, although I have to wonder how often a word enters the language and the dictionaries that was invented by a writer to deprecate his own work? Surely that, in itself, is a significant accomplishment, and justifies <I>The Black Arrow<\/i>, even if it really is not a very good book.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger hath perused yon book, and lo, it is crap, by&#8217;r&#8217;Lady. Strewth! Tush! <\/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-13265","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\/13265","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=13265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19171,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265\/revisions\/19171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}