{"id":1716,"date":"2004-01-24T11:44:59","date_gmt":"2004-01-24T16:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/01\/24\/1716.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:19","slug":"book-report-one-for-the-mornin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/01\/24\/book-report-one-for-the-mornin\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: One for the Morning Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another book Your Humble Blogger re-read whilst unpacking boxes of books was John Barnes&#8217; <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/05b\/mg128.htm\">One for the Morning Glory<\/a><\/i> (New York: Tor Fantasy 1996). Gentle Readers, if you haven&#8217;t read this one, go out and read it now.\n\n<p>Now, don't be fooled. I've never read another John Barnes book I thought was good, and I've read several that were terrible. So if you get to the B shelf and they don't have <i>One for the Morning Glory<\/i>, just keep right on past any other Barnes to John Barth and pick up <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dave-edelman.com\/barth\/somebody.cfm\">The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor<\/a><\/i>. Well, if you've already read some Julian Barnes and like it, then fine, read some more. The point is, don't read anything by John Barnes other than <i>One for the Morning Glory<\/i>. But don't miss <i>One for the Morning Glory<\/i>.\n\n<p>You see, it was an old saying in The Kingdom that 'a child who tastes the Wine of the Gods too early is only half a person afterwards.' So when Prince Amatus&#8212;sole heir to the throne, the Queen having died at his birth&#8212;just four days after his second birthday, contrives to gulp down a full glass of the Wine of the Gods, it quickly becomes clear to everybody that they are in a story. When four mysterious companions arrive, the King and his Prime Minister hope that the Prince will be the hero of the story, and that it will end happily.\n\n<p>And perhaps it will.\n\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another book Your Humble Blogger re-read whilst unpacking boxes of books was John Barnes\u2019 One for the Morning Glory (New York: Tor Fantasy 1996). Gentle Readers, if you haven\u2019t read this one, go out and read it now. Now, don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/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-1716","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\/1716","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=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16887,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/16887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}