{"id":535,"date":"2005-06-23T20:25:22","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T01:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/06\/23\/an-obviously-self-evident-no-brainer-sure-thing\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T12:24:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:24:46","slug":"an-obviously-self-evident-no-brainer-sure-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/535","title":{"rendered":"An obviously self-evident no-brainer sure thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I was somewhat familiar with the actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001394\/\">Derek Jacobi<\/a>, but it took listening to the audio version of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicalnovelsociety.org\/solander files\/spinterview.htm\">Gates of Fire<\/a>&#8221; (Steven Pressfield&#8217;s riveting story of life among the Spartans), for me to recognize the supreme awesomeness of his abilities. Since I liked &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/uj\/2005\/03\/06\">The Islands of Unwisdom<\/a>&#8221; so much, the time is right to finally partake of the 1976 mini-series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074006\/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxxPUkgQ2xhdWRpdXN8bXg9MjB8bG09NTAwfGh0bWw9MQ__;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1\n\n\">I, Claudius<\/a>, which brings Graves and Sir Derek together.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; &#8220;Derek Jacobi is brilliant&#8212;his soldiers are terrifyingly gruff, and his breathless account of the fighting is so vivid that one can almost smell blood.  With a lesser reader, the novel&#8217;s structure might  have been confusing, but Jacobi&#8217;s ability to subtly alter the timbre of his  voice and the style of his delivery to differentiate narrators makes it perfectly clear.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;AudioFile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I was somewhat familiar with the actor Derek Jacobi, but it took listening to the audio version of &#8220;Gates of Fire&#8221; (Steven Pressfield&#8217;s riveting story of life among the Spartans), for me to recognize the supreme awesomeness of his abilities. Since I liked &#8220;The Islands of Unwisdom&#8221; so much, the time is right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,42,11,16,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}