{"id":245,"date":"2007-09-15T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2007-09-15T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T07:00:00","slug":"this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-by-morrow-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"<u>This is the Way the World Ends<\/u>, by Morrow, James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never really been a fan of light-hearted humor in my SF reads.  I personally cannot stand Terry Pratchett, for example, and even Douglas Adams sometimes pushes me to my limits.  I guess I just don&apos;t see the need because I like for my SF to resonate heavily with social issues, and I think comedy really takes away from that.  I really am not such a fan of comedy even in military or action pieces either, as I tend to think that inserting copious amounts of humor is just one way to cove<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/59'>[&#8230;]<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/59'>Read the rest of this review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never really been a fan of light-hearted humor in my SF reads. I personally cannot stand Terry Pratchett, for example, and even Douglas Adams sometimes pushes me to my limits. I guess I just don&apos;t see the need because I like for my SF to resonate heavily with social issues, and I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[2531,2578,2580,2469],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}