{"id":482,"date":"2007-07-08T12:12:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T12:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=482"},"modified":"2015-07-12T09:35:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T14:35:13","slug":"fantasymysery_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/07\/fantasymysery_b.html","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy\/Mystery: &#8220;Blood Bound&#8221; by Patricia Briggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second in the series (#1 <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/07\/fantasymystery_1.html\">here<\/A>).<\/p>\n<p>Still involved with the werewolves but the mystery here centers around the local vampires and their seethe.  Very spooky stuff!<\/p>\n<p>Some neat religious imagery with Mercy insisting on wearing a lamb necklace instead of a cross: &#8220;I don&#8217;t wear a cross. As a child, I&#8217;d had a bad experience with one. Besides, a crucifix was the instrument of Our Lord&#8217;s death &#8212; I don&#8217;t know why people think a torture device should be a symbol of Christ. Christ was a willing sacrifice, a lamb, not a cross for us to hang ourselves on; or at least that&#8217;s my interpretation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second in the series (#1 here). Still involved with the werewolves but the mystery here centers around the local vampires and their seethe. Very spooky stuff! Some neat religious imagery with Mercy insisting on wearing a lamb necklace instead of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/07\/fantasymysery_b.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":[13,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-lit_quotes","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","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=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}