{"id":463,"date":"2010-10-08T15:10:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T05:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2010-10-08T22:12:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T05:12:27","slug":"player-of-games-the-by-banks-iain-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"<u>Player of Games, The<\/u>, by Banks, Iain M."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">You call it enjoyment to lose your house, your titles, your estates; your children maybe; to be expected to walk out onto the balcony with a gun and blow your brains out?  That&apos;s enjoyment?  We&apos;re well free of that. You want something you can&apos;t have, Gurgeh.  You enjoy your life in the Culture, but it can&apos;t provide you with sufficient threats; the true gambler needs the excitement of potential loss, even ruin, to feel wholly alive.   <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I generally consider myself to be very we<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/522'>[&#8230;]<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/522'>Read the rest of this review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You call it enjoyment to lose your house, your titles, your estates; your children maybe; to be expected to walk out onto the balcony with a gun and blow your brains out? That&apos;s enjoyment? We&apos;re well free of that. You want something you can&apos;t have, Gurgeh. You enjoy your life in the Culture, but it [&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":[2483,2486,2489,2626,2556,2536,2611,2519,2584,2464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}