{"id":36648,"date":"2022-07-16T14:43:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T19:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36648"},"modified":"2022-07-16T14:43:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T19:43:53","slug":"i-just-wasnt-compelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/16\/i-just-wasnt-compelled\/","title":{"rendered":"I Just Wasn&#8217;t Compelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took me only &#8230; three or four months &#8230; to finish Cixin Liu&#8217;s <em><strong>Three Body Problem<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I was not beset by unusual activity or delays.<\/p>\n<p>Its clunky style &#8211; or is that the Chinese style? &#8211; just didn&#8217;t catch my attention.<\/p>\n<p>Although I did appreciate the scanty peek he gives us into the political and military swirls of the Cultural Revolution, of which I know very, very little. To nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Jack Vance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me only &#8230; three or four months &#8230; to finish Cixin Liu&#8217;s Three Body Problem. I was not beset by unusual activity or delays. Its clunky style &#8211; or is that the Chinese style? &#8211; just didn&#8217;t catch my attention. Although I did appreciate the scanty peek he \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/16\/i-just-wasnt-compelled\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36649,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36648\/revisions\/36649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}