{"id":1315,"date":"2005-12-08T23:49:46","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T23:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/12\/going_postal\/"},"modified":"2005-12-08T23:49:46","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T23:49:46","slug":"going_postal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/going_postal\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Postal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0552149438&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nI believe that this is the thirtieth entry in the Discworld series, and that means that Pratchett has been publishing more than one title a year on average. I understand that he&#8217;s slowed down a bit more recently, but the guy&#8217;s a publishing phenomenon.<br \/>\nThis time around we meet Moist von Lipwig, who&#8217;s a cheat and a conman who&#8217;s facing a death sentence. At the last minute, he gets a secret reprieve in return for being put in charge of the Post Office in Ankh-Morpork. We meet a lively gaggle of characters and some awfully evil ones too.<br \/>\nAs usual Pratchett has peopled his world with characters all too close to those that we know in our world, and it doesn&#8217;t exactly take a giant leap to see the similarities between businesses and behaviours in Discworld and those in our own.<br \/>\nA great novel, and another reminder that I really really definitely should get around to reading some more of the other twenty-nine or so novels in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that this is the thirtieth entry in the Discworld series, and that means that Pratchett has been publishing more than one title a year on average. I understand that he&#8217;s slowed down a bit more recently, but the guy&#8217;s a publishing phenomenon. This time around we meet Moist von Lipwig, who&#8217;s a cheat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}