{"id":99,"date":"2008-07-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2008-07-19T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T07:00:00","slug":"ballad-of-beta-2-the-by-delany-samuel-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"<u>Ballad of Beta-2, The<\/u>, by Delany, Samuel R."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken me a long time to get to this point in my appreciation of SF, but I have finally come around completely on Samuel Delany.  I always enjoyed his books, but I considered him to be a little full of himself, and thought his books were horribly overwritten.  But in the last five or six years I have gone back and re-read a few volumes that I was not fond of, this one included, and for some reason I now have a much better appreciation for them.  I think that I feel this way mainly because<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/153'>[&#8230;]<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/153'>Read the rest of this review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken me a long time to get to this point in my appreciation of SF, but I have finally come around completely on Samuel Delany. I always enjoyed his books, but I considered him to be a little full of himself, and thought his books were horribly overwritten. But in the last five [&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":[2486,2493,2521,2500,2665,2519,2524,2511],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}