{"id":416,"date":"2007-05-14T11:08:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T11:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=416"},"modified":"2015-07-11T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T15:10:40","slug":"fantasy_wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/05\/fantasy_wizards.html","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy: &#8220;Wizard&#8217;s First Rule&#8221; by Terry Goodkind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 1 of the Sword of Truth series <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/05\/fantasy_chainfi.html\">that I earlier read Book 10 of (doh!)<\/A>.  Also the debut novel by the author.<\/p>\n<p>Really like some of the characters, but felt some, Richard in particular, were a bit stiff at the beginning.  Having read Book 10 already, I think it&#8217;s stiffness on the part of a first-time author, and he will loosen up as the series goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Loved learning more about the Mord-Sith (awesome!)  Samuel creeps me out and totally reminds me of Golom or whatever his name is in lord of the rings (precious! my precious!).  Looking forward to more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 1 of the Sword of Truth series that I earlier read Book 10 of (doh!). Also the debut novel by the author. Really like some of the characters, but felt some, Richard in particular, were a bit stiff at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/05\/fantasy_wizards.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3052,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/3052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}