{"id":98,"date":"2008-09-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2008-09-17T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T07:00:00","slug":"languages-of-pao-the-by-vance-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"<u>Languages of Pao, The<\/u>, by Vance, Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have made no secret of the fact that I generally do not like fantasy.  With the exception of a few books I generally only like it if it is mixed with SF, and very little of the pure stuff appeals to me at all.  I am also not fond of much of the the New Weird stories either.  But one of the crossover authors that I somewhat enjoy is Jack Vance.  This week&apos;s review is of his novel called The Languages of Pao.  It&apos;s a bit of a roller coaster ride in terms of plot, but the characters an<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/211'>[&#8230;]<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/211'>Read the rest of this review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have made no secret of the fact that I generally do not like fantasy. With the exception of a few books I generally only like it if it is mixed with SF, and very little of the pure stuff appeals to me at all. I am also not fond of much of the the [&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":[2486,2636,2519,2464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}