{"id":2556,"date":"2016-12-08T18:21:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T18:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2016-12-08T18:22:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T18:22:11","slug":"book-log-50-sword-song-the-battle-for-london-saxon-tales-book-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2556","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #50: Sword Song: The Battle for London (Saxon Tales Book 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sword Song: The Battle for London (Saxon Tales Book 4) <\/em>by Bernard Cornwell<\/p>\n<p>Another Saxon Tales book!  This one like the others!  Intrigue!  Action!  Barbarians!  Norsemen!  Etc!<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy reading them, but&#8230; unlike <em>A Song of Fire and Ice<\/em>, I am not <em>compelled<\/em> to read the next one.  I expect I&#8217;ll lay off these for a while, and return when the book well runs dry.<\/p>\n<p>But I understand NPR recommended an unprecedented 300 books this year.  I should check some of them out.<\/p>\n<p>Note:  Astute readers will note that no #49 has been listed.  Not that I think my target person follows this blog, but it involves an Xmas present, and I don&#8217;t want to give anything away.  So, #49 will be revealed at 1am, December 25.  I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll all stay up to see.<\/p>\n<p>Books Read: 50<br \/>\nWeek Number: 49<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sword Song: The Battle for London (Saxon Tales Book 4) by Bernard Cornwell Another Saxon Tales book! This one like the others! Intrigue! Action! Barbarians! Norsemen! Etc! I enjoy reading them, but&#8230; unlike A Song of Fire and Ice, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2556\">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":[509],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","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=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}