{"id":1342,"date":"2008-07-27T21:25:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T01:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2008-07-27T21:25:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T01:25:52","slug":"a-previous-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/27\/a-previous-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Previous Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No blogging today, nothing&#8217;s getting between me and the new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vlad_Taltos\">Taltos<\/a><footnote>If that made you think of Ann Rice, you&#8217;re probably reading the wrong blog.<\/footnote> book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jhegaala-Vlad-Steven-Brust\/dp\/0765301474\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/07\/Jhegaala.jpg\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Jhegaala\" title=\"Jhegaala\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve known <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamcafe.com\/\">Steve<\/a> for quite few years now, but I&#8217;ve known <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vlad_Taltos\">Vlad<\/a> since I was 10 years old&#8211;we go waaaay back. And unlike many people I knew when I was ten, I&#8217;m always glad to see him when he comes around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">No blogging today, nothing&#8217;s getting between me and the new TaltosIf that made you think of Ann Rice, you&#8217;re probably reading the wrong blog. book. I&#8217;ve known Steve for quite few years now, but I&#8217;ve known Vlad since I was 10 years old&#8211;we go waaaay back. And unlike many people I knew when I was ten, I&#8217;m always glad to&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/27\/a-previous-engagement\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[257,458,284],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-authors","tag-books","tag-recommended","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-lE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}