{"id":6087,"date":"2015-01-15T17:07:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T22:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6087"},"modified":"2015-01-15T17:07:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T22:07:38","slug":"the-green-ember-is-great-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6087","title":{"rendered":"The Green Ember Is Great Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get why Loren hesitates to review Sam Smith&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0986223506\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0986223506&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=brandbooks-20&#038;linkId=S6AGC62G5UESSBYL\">The Green Ember<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=brandbooks-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0986223506\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>, and I share <a href=\"http:\/\/isawlightningfall.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/ember-blazes-bright.html\">his desire to see it succeed.<\/a> Here&#8217;s a bit of his review:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s the best way I can sum up <i>The Green Ember<\/i> for you: It reads as if Brian Jacques had Sam Gamgee&#8217;s famous quote from The Return of the King (&#8220;Is everything sad going to come untrue?&#8221;) nailed above his desk while writing a version of Redwall that wasn&#8217;t awful. Far from being merely &#8220;not awful,&#8221; though, Smith&#8217;s first novel shows that he truly understands the essentials of storytelling.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get why Loren hesitates to review Sam Smith&#8217;s The Green Ember, and I share his desire to see it succeed. Here&#8217;s a bit of his review: &#8220;Here&#8217;s the best way I can sum up The Green Ember for you: It reads as if Brian Jacques had Sam Gamgee&#8217;s famous quote from The Return of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6087\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Green Ember Is Great Fun<\/span> <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":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}