{"id":386,"date":"2005-09-20T17:09:58","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T01:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2005-09-20T17:10:22","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T01:10:22","slug":"the-inimitable-terry-pratchett-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/09\/20\/the-inimitable-terry-pratchett-strikes-again","title":{"rendered":"the inimitable Terry Pratchett strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve never had the pleasure before, you owe it to yourself to read something by Terry Pratchett. He\u2019s a humor fantasy novelist who actually makes me laugh out loud on a fairly regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>I just finished his most recent book and stumbled across these two little snippets that tickled me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=myspeculation-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0060815221%2526tag=myspeculation-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0060815221%25253FSubscriptionId=1ESPWHQPEAFEE2CS3BG2\" title=\"View product details at Amazon\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0060815221.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"Thud! (Discworld, Book 30)\" class=\"alignright\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Nobby said,] \u201cThere\u2019s a lot that goes on that we don\u2019t know&nbsp;about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike what, exactly?\u201d Colon retorted. \u201cName me one thing that\u2019s going on that you don\u2019t know about. There\u2013you can\u2019t, can you?\u201d (page&nbsp;42)&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And later\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cWar, Nobby. Huh! What is it good for?\u201d he&nbsp;said.<br>\n\u201cDunno, Sarge. Freeing slaves, maybe?\u201d<br>\n\u201cAbsol\u2013well, okay.\u201d<br>\n\u201cDefending yourself against a totalitarian aggressor?\u201d<br>\n\u201cAll right, I\u2019ll grant you that,&nbsp;but\u2013\u201d<br>\n\u201cSaving civilization from a horde&nbsp;of\u2013\u201d<br>\n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t do any good in the long run is what I\u2019m saying, Nobby, if you\u2019d listen for five seconds together, \u201d said Fred Colon sharply.<br>\n\u201cYeah, but in the long run, what does, Sarge?\u201d (page&nbsp;50)&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve never had the pleasure before, you owe it to yourself to read something by Terry Pratchett. He\u2019s a humor fantasy novelist who actually makes me laugh out loud on a fairly regular basis. I just finished his most recent book and stumbled across these two little snippets that tickled me. [Nobby said,] \u201cThere\u2019s \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/09\/20\/the-inimitable-terry-pratchett-strikes-again\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cthe inimitable Terry Pratchett strikes again\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-6e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}