{"id":642,"date":"2005-02-20T09:19:36","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T16:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/642"},"modified":"2005-02-20T09:19:36","modified_gmt":"2005-02-20T16:19:36","slug":"the-phoenix-guards-five-hundred-years-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/642","title":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Guards &amp; Five Hundred Years After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Phoenix Guards<\/em> (1991) &amp; <em>Five Hundred Years After<\/em> (1994) Steven Brust<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you just need to read a book that you know is going to make you happy. When those times come upon me, I frequently read Steven Brust.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years After are two of the &#8216;Khaavren Romances&#8217; centered around Khaavren the Tiassa, and written in the style of Alexandre Dumas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(S)omeone once asked, in all seriousness, which was the best translation of Dumas&#8217; The Three Musketeers into English. The two fastest answers she got were &#8220;Learn French, as nobody&#8217;s managed to make a translation that&#8217;s half as good as the original&#8221;, and &#8220;The Phoenix Guards.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.klishis.com\/Books\/library\/000681.html\"><strong>Read More about Steven Brust&#8217;s <em>The Phoenix Guards<\/em> &amp; <em>Five Hundred Years After<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Guards (1991) &amp; Five Hundred Years After (1994) Steven Brust Sometimes you just need to read a book that you know is going to make you happy. When those times come upon me, I frequently read Steven Brust. The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years After are two of the &#8216;Khaavren Romances&#8217; centered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-am","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}