{"id":326,"date":"2005-06-19T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-19T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:46:16","slug":"book-log-system-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; System of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>System of the World: Volume 3 of the Baroque Cycle<\/i> by Neal Stephenson<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s it.  I&#8217;m done with the trilogy, as of Tuesday.  And I&#8217;m really sad.  I simply wanted it to keep going.  I read the last page of the Acknowledgements as my plane door opened in Atlanta from Arkansas this past week.<\/p>\n<p>But the third volume was a great ending, and thoroughly enjoyable throughout.  <\/p>\n<p>Now, I feel I need to re-read <i>Cryptonomicon<\/i>.  And thus, I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>System of the World: Volume 3 of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson Well, that&#8217;s it. I&#8217;m done with the trilogy, as of Tuesday. And I&#8217;m really sad. I simply wanted it to keep going. I read the last page &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=326\">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":[49,50],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2005","tag-stephenson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","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=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}