{"id":175,"date":"2006-09-24T12:21:48","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T17:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=175"},"modified":"2025-01-14T21:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T21:10:15","slug":"the-lies-of-locke-lamora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"The Lies of Locke Lamora"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just finished reading the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/29588376-the-lies-of-locke-lamora\">&#8220;The Lies of Locke Lamora&#8221;<\/a> by Scott Lynch. It&#8217;s a story of rogues and cutthroats, with a touch of magic &#8212; in other words, it&#8217;s just the kind of story I like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t <em>wholeheartedly<\/em> recommend it, since it has a few structural problems that I would put down to it being written by a &#8220;bright new voice&#8221; (said the promotional material (\/em winks)).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having said that, it&#8217;s definitely worth a read if you&#8217;re in the mood for a crime caper with some twists. If you do give it a go, let me know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading the book &#8220;The Lies of Locke Lamora&#8221; by Scott Lynch. It&#8217;s a story of rogues and cutthroats, with a touch of magic &#8212; in other words, it&#8217;s just the kind of story I like. I can&#8217;t wholeheartedly recommend it, since it has a few structural problems that I would put down [&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-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3455,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}