{"id":242,"date":"2007-02-16T16:39:14","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T21:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/02\/16\/recommended-river-of-gods\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T21:39:14","slug":"recommended-river-of-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/02\/16\/recommended-river-of-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended: River of Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/01\/24\/ian_mcdonalds_bollyp.html\">a solid recommendation<\/a>, I picked up (and just finished) Ian MacDonald&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1591024366\/\">River of Gods<\/a><\/em>.  A really well done bit of speculative fiction that combines global politics, believable tech, and an education in Hindi slang.  It&#8217;s what William Gibson would have written, had he moved to Mumbai instead of Vancouver. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a solid recommendation, I picked up (and just finished) Ian MacDonald&#8217;s River of Gods. A really well done bit of speculative fiction that combines global politics, believable tech, and an education in Hindi slang. It&#8217;s what William Gibson would have written, had he moved to Mumbai instead of Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}