{"id":2073,"date":"2017-04-22T12:15:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T16:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2017-04-22T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T16:15:46","slug":"2073","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/2073","title":{"rendered":"hopelessly a reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cHe had a strong sense of his life being upon the turn, between two seasons, as it were, with the certainties of the one no longer valid for the other. He was not a fanciful man, but for some time now he had had an indefinable sense of chaos following order, of impending disaster; and it oppressed his mind.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 the thoughts of Captain J Aubrey<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Treason\u2019s Harbour<\/em> by Patrick O\u2019Brian<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am swept up in the riveting climax of my ninth O\u2019Brian novel, and must finish it off within hours. The library purchased the new Charlton Heston biography in response to my request, so I shall be taking a break from my esteemed Stephen Maturin to immerse myself \u2014  one more time \u2014 in the life story of \u201cHollywood\u2019s Last Icon.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OBrianHeston.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OBrianHeston.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"163\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OBrianHeston.jpg 352w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OBrianHeston-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 11px; margin-bottom: 22px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe had a strong sense of his life being upon the turn, between two seasons, as it were, with the certainties of the one no longer valid for the other. He was not a fanciful man, but for some time now he had had an indefinable sense of chaos following order, of impending disaster; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,44,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}