{"id":562,"date":"2008-05-02T22:18:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T02:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=562"},"modified":"2025-08-04T18:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:46:23","slug":"hex-and-the-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/562","title":{"rendered":"Hex and the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/165\">Hex and the City<\/a><\/em> (2005) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/greens.php\">Simon R Green<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humph. I&#8217;d nearly forgotten that this is where the books change and now it&#8217;s all a mad rush to deal with John&#8217;s mother and the possible destruction of Nightside.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I have to go get the next book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hex and the City (2005) Simon R Green Humph. I&#8217;d nearly forgotten that this is where the books change and now it&#8217;s all a mad rush to deal with John&#8217;s mother and the possible destruction of Nightside. Now if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I have to go get the next book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[2,291,41,16],"tags":[79,78],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-paper","category-reread","category-supernatural","tag-nightside","tag-simon-r-green"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-94","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11171,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11171","url_meta":{"origin":562,"position":0},"title":"Hex and the City, Audio Edition","author":"Michelle","date":"October 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Hex and the City, Audio Edition (2005\/2008) Simon R Green narrated by Marc Vietor The fourth Nightside book finds John Taylor taking a case to look into something he always wanted to know: the origin of The Nightside. 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