{"id":3113,"date":"2009-09-24T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2015-03-18T23:27:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:27:31","slug":"asides-retroactive-jealousy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/asides-retroactive-jealousy\/","title":{"rendered":"Asides: Retroactive Jealousy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t feel like I &#8220;missed out&#8221; in my childhood because modern console gaming, or the Internet, or whatever hadn&#8217;t been invented yet. However, I do think that if books like John Flanagan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rangersapprentice.com.au\/\">Ranger&#8217;s Apprentice<\/a> series, or Joseph Delaney&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spooksbooks.com\/\">Wardstone Chronicles<\/a> had been around when I was just coming into my teens, I would have absolutely devoured them. I&#8217;m retroactively jealous. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I don&#8217;t feel like I &#8220;missed out&#8221; in my childhood because modern console gaming, or the Internet, or whatever hadn&#8217;t been invented yet. However, I do think that if books like John Flanagan&#8217;s Ranger&#8217;s Apprentice series, or Joseph Delaney&#8217;s Wardstone Chronicles had been around when I was just coming into my teens, I would have absolutely devoured them. I&#8217;m retroactively&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/asides-retroactive-jealousy\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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":[331,8],"tags":[101,458],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-aside","category-books","tag-aging","tag-books","post_format-post-format-aside","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-Od","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","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=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}