{"id":13533,"date":"2010-12-31T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T13:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/12\/31\/13533.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:58:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:58:32","slug":"book-report-the-mask-of-apollo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/12\/31\/book-report-the-mask-of-apollo-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Mask of Apollo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Your Humble Blogger is writing this note on December 26th, in the evening, during a profound snowstorm. I am at the moment only partway through The Mask of Apollo<\/a>; I expect I will finish it in the next few days. Well, next few days from now, when I’m writing it. I am scheduling the note to actually go on-line in five days. So from your point of view, Gentle Reader, I expect I will have finished it in the last few days. And if I don’t finish the book by the 31st, I will delete the entry, so you won’t have seen it. If you are reading this on the last day of 2010, then I will<\/i> finish the book in the next few days. Clear?\n

Of course, if you are reading this in 2011 sometime, it’s likely I finished it in the first week of the year. Or maybe you’re just catching up, because you had better things to do on New Year’s Eve than read a book report on the Tohu Bohu, particularly when it is, I kid you not, the fourth one on the same damned book. I mean, come on. In which case, I hope you had a good time. Or, if it hasn’t happened yet, that you do have a good time. Happy New Year! Whatever year it is.\n

Now, the reason I am pre-blogging this book is that I have, at last, caught up with my list of unblogged books, and if I don’t finish anything else before the end of the year, I will not have to write any entries in January that have December timestamps in order to make my Year in Books accurate. Ish. Because we all know I’ve missed a bunch. And, despite the traveling I am planning on doing between now and then, the odds are fairly good that I’ll read something of some kind while I am on the road. I do that. I’ll have the netbook with me, anyway, and I have all kinds of stuff on the hard drive now. But for now, the plan is that The Mask of Apollo<\/i> will be the last book I read in 2010, and the last book I blog, and then the last Book Report that posts itself whilst I, Gentle Readers, am driving up the Eastern Seaboard, coming home.\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Which Your Humble Blogger finishes up the year. The solar year, I mean. You know, January to December.<\/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-13533","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\/13533","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=13533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19274,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533\/revisions\/19274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}