{"id":7384,"date":"2010-09-27T06:50:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T13:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2010-09-27T06:50:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T13:50:48","slug":"a-new-book-question-for-you-the-premise-of-the-princess-bride-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/a-new-book-question-for-you-the-premise-of-the-princess-bride-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A new &#039;book&#039; question for you: the premise of The Princess Bride&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is that most everybody has a book they read that just haunts them: they can&#8217;t remember the title, or they can&#8217;t remember the author, or it&#8217;s a book that appeared and vanished, and you really liked it, but nothing else by that author ever appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the collective wisdom of WWAS can identify some of these.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give you a book I read, the author of which I can&#8217;t remember, and, being me, I don&#8217;t really remember the plot&#8212;but I really liked it. It was called <em>The Wizard of Glass,<\/em> and the premise was that, in the hands of a wizard, a piece of glass matching the eye color of a creature could control it. It exists, I think, somewhere in my library, which has moved 7 times&#8230;and is still largely in boxes in the basement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is that most everybody has a book they read that just haunts them: they can&#8217;t remember the title, or they can&#8217;t remember the author, or it&#8217;s a book that appeared and vanished, and you really liked it, but nothing else by that author ever appeared. Maybe the collective wisdom of WWAS can identify some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}