{"id":515,"date":"2011-02-05T06:09:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T10:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2011-02-05T06:09:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T10:09:23","slug":"patricia-anthony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the books I&#8217;ve read recently was the fine novel, <em>Flanders<\/em>, by Patricia Anthony, which I missed when it first came out in 1998.  I was delighted to find it still in print from Berkley.  She is one of my favorite sf writers, especially <em>Happy Policeman<\/em> and <em>Brother Termite<\/em>.  The fantastic element here is ghostly and understated, but it is hands down the best novel I&#8217;ve ever read about World War I, a pitch perfect epistolary novel about a Texas sharpshooter in the trenches.  I loved this book.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re weary of hip noirish steampunk mushrooms, give <em>Flanders<\/em> a try.\u00c2\u00a0 It will break your heart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/flanders.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-518\" title=\"flanders\" src=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/flanders.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/flanders.jpg 302w, http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/flanders-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the books I&#8217;ve read recently was the fine novel, Flanders, by Patricia Anthony, which I missed when it first came out in 1998. I was delighted to find it still in print from Berkley. She is one of my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=515\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}