{"id":2795,"date":"2015-03-12T19:18:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2015-03-12T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:33:09","slug":"a-sad-day-at-the-de-waal-hubbard-blake-household","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2795","title":{"rendered":"A sad day at the de Waal-Hubbard-Blake household"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have at least one copy of everything Sir <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/alt.religion.wicca.moderated\/4KoWPe-Vckg\">Pterry<\/a> ever wrote. At least one, because both Tanya and I were fans long before we met, and the libraries merged.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered Discworld when The Colour of Magic hit paperback, back in &#8217;85 or so. Been hooked since. Re-read the whole thing recently, it&#8217;s so obvious that while the author really wants to write parody, the Discworld keeps forcing him back into Being Serious.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s the thing. While Discworld is light-hearted, the issues are serious. You can read right over all of that without skipping a beat, or you can take your time and realise that real issues are being addressed.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2798\" href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?attachment_id=2798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2798\" title=\"PTerry-IfNotYouWhoElse-t\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PTerry-IfNotYouWhoElse-t.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Sigh* I guess we sort of expected him to be <a href=\"http:\/\/discworld.wikia.com\/wiki\/Cohen\">Cohen the Barbarian<\/a>, so adept at surviving that nothing can kill him.<\/p>\n<p>Alas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have at least one copy of everything Sir Pterry ever wrote. At least one, because both Tanya and I were fans long before we met, and the libraries merged. I discovered Discworld when The Colour of Magic hit paperback, back in &#8217;85 or so. Been hooked since. Re-read the whole thing recently, it&#8217;s so obvious that while the author really wants to write parody, the Discworld keeps forcing him back into Being Serious.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s the thing. While Discworld is light-hearted, the issues are serious. You can read right over all of that without skipping a beat, or you&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,83,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-get-off-my-lawn","category-tanj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}