{"id":820,"date":"2007-09-24T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:44:48","slug":"book-log-first-among-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Book Log: First Among Sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>First Among Sequels<\/i> by Jasper Fforde<\/p>\n<p>The fifth Thursday Next novel.<\/p>\n<p>Fforde turns self-reference up to 11 as Thursday Next is training innacurately-written fictional Thursday Nexts from the first five books (including the non-existent <i>The Samuel Pepys Fiasco<\/i>) to become Jurisfiction Agents, with a subplot about time travel.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoyable mind candy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde The fifth Thursday Next novel. Fforde turns self-reference up to 11 as Thursday Next is training innacurately-written fictional Thursday Nexts from the first five books (including the non-existent The Samuel Pepys Fiasco) to become &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=820\">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":[494,249],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2","tag-book-log-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","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=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3423,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/3423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}