{"id":430,"date":"2004-07-15T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=430"},"modified":"2010-06-13T17:14:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T21:14:49","slug":"430","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"Master and Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0006499155\/tomleslieca-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0006499155.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Master and Commander\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"108\" height=\"140\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0006499252\/tomleslieca-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0006499252.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Far Side of the World\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"108\" height=\"140\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>I read the two books &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0006499155\/tomleslieca-20\">Master and Commander<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0006499252\/tomleslieca-20\">The Far Side of the World<\/a> &#8212; while we were on our honeymoon.  (I&#8217;d taken the first one over with me and couldn&#8217;t find books 2-9 in the series in any of the bookstores we checked.)  Excellent books, rather too full of rich detail to be condensed in a truly satisfying way into a feature movie.  I&#8217;ve been catching up on book 2, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0006499163\/tomleslieca-20\">Post Captain<\/a>, since I got back.  Truly excellent books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read the two books &#8212; Master and Commander, and The Far Side of the World &#8212; while we were on our honeymoon. (I&#8217;d taken the first one over with me and couldn&#8217;t find books 2-9 in the series in any of the bookstores we checked.) Excellent books, rather too full of rich detail to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}