{"id":2753,"date":"2016-12-17T22:10:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2016-12-17T22:10:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T11:10:58","slug":"book-review-the-abominable-by-dan-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/12\/17\/book-review-the-abominable-by-dan-simmons\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: &#8220;The Abominable&#8221; by Dan Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first stumbled across Dan Simmons&#8217; writing around 1990. The book was a science fiction delight called &#8220;Hyperion&#8221;. It was a science fiction epic, a Canterbury Tales for space and time travel. Since then I have frequently indulged myself in his novels. As an author he leans towards the fantastic, whether it be in science fiction or horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first stumbled across Dan Simmons&#8217; writing around 1990. The book was a science fiction delight called &#8220;Hyperion&#8221;. It was a science fiction epic, a Canterbury Tales for space and time travel. Since then I have frequently indulged myself in his novels. As an author he leans towards the fantastic, whether it be in science fiction or horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[211,212,213,214,215,216,217,218,219,220,143,221,32,222,223,4,224],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reviews","tag-211","tag-abominable","tag-dan-simmons","tag-everest","tag-fiction","tag-himalaya","tag-historical-fiction","tag-mount-everest","tag-mountain-climbing","tag-mountains","tag-novel","tag-novel-review","tag-review","tag-simmons","tag-the-abominable","tag-writing","tag-yeti","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/abominable.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}