{"id":1670,"date":"2011-09-14T14:16:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T14:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:35:07","slug":"book-log-the-confusion-re-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1670","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; The Confusion (re-read)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Confusion: Book 2 of the Baroque Cycle<\/em> by Neal Stephenson<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=321\">re-read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say, the second time through was even better.\u00a0 I think it owes to the fact that I could read it in longer bursts over a relatively short amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>On to System of the World,\u00a0 and then Stephenson&#8221;s new book should be out, which will have nothing to do with these, but it still seems a good way to bide my time while waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confusion: Book 2 of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson This is a re-read. I have to say, the second time through was even better.\u00a0 I think it owes to the fact that I could read it in longer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1670\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[466,50],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2011","tag-stephenson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3316,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}