{"id":2630,"date":"2019-03-12T01:27:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2025-04-19T19:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:55:45","slug":"book-log-3-out-of-spite-out-of-mind-magic-2-0-book-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2630","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #3: Out of Spite, Out of Mind (Magic 2.0 Book 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Out of Spite, Out of Mind (Magic 2.0 Book 5)<\/em> by Scott Meyer (Kindle)<\/p>\n<p>Decent mind candy as usual.  He takes a fun premise (a secret computer file that contains reality, and can be edited, so some people find it and make themselves magicians) and plays with it in amusing ways.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping at some point that he starts cracking into the mystery of the file.  But maybe he&#8217;s going to milk this for as many books as he can before a Big Reveal.  Or maybe he hasn&#8217;t thought of the Big Reveal.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, if you like the first 4, you&#8217;ll like this one just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of Spite, Out of Mind (Magic 2.0 Book 5) by Scott Meyer (Kindle) Decent mind candy as usual. He takes a fun premise (a secret computer file that contains reality, and can be edited, so some people find it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2630\">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":[512,481,513],"tags":[519],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","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=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}