{"id":1344,"date":"2010-01-22T10:13:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T10:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2011-10-29T18:40:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T23:40:17","slug":"scifi_mother_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/01\/scifi_mother_of.html","title":{"rendered":"SciFI: Mother of Storms, by John Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A loaner from Anne, who&#8217;s been borrowing all my books!!! \ud83d\ude09  Hee hee just teasing.  It came with the recommendation that it&#8217;s one of her all-time faves so I was excited to delve in.<\/p>\n<p>Totally wicked modern sci fi basically detailing a (slightly into the future but mostly &#8220;our&#8221;) world falling into catastrophe set off by one tiny thing.  It&#8217;s so freaking BECAUSE IT SO COULD HAPPEN.  I mean really the entire time you&#8217;re reading it, you think &#8220;this is ENTIRELY plausible and it is FREAKING ME OUT!&#8221;  Lots of characters in different storylines with loose connections; like the Robert Jordan books in that if you don&#8217;t like certain characters, you just hang in there because the ones you like will have another chapter shortly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Really entertaining.  Really scarily plausible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A loaner from Anne, who&#8217;s been borrowing all my books!!! \ud83d\ude09 Hee hee just teasing. It came with the recommendation that it&#8217;s one of her all-time faves so I was excited to delve in. Totally wicked modern sci fi basically &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/01\/scifi_mother_of.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}