{"id":1338,"date":"2009-12-14T17:28:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T21:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2009-12-14T17:28:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T21:28:50","slug":"monday-book-pick-his-majestys-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/monday-book-pick\/monday-book-pick-his-majestys-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Pick: His Majesty&#8217;s Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345481283\/eclipsswebwarren\">His Majesty&#8217;s Dragon<\/a><\/strong> by Naomi Novik<\/p>\n<p>An interesting bit of historical fantasy that reads like a cross between Horatio Hornblower and Jane Austen, with dragons. Yup, dragons, and the best dragons, of course, come from China. This is the first in series about a British Navy Officer who captures a dragon&#8217;s egg in a sea battle and ends up bonding with the beast when it hatches.  Of course, it speaks English, and French.  An interesting read.  While I&#8217;m a mostly a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/epics.htm\">hard core SciFi<\/a> reader, I do enjoy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/sf-tt.htm\">good alternate history<\/a> stories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/monday_book_picks.html\">Monday Book Pick Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Majesty&#8217;s Dragon by Naomi Novik An interesting bit of historical fantasy that reads like a cross between Horatio Hornblower and Jane Austen, with dragons. Yup, dragons, and the best dragons, of course, come from China. This is the first in series about a British Navy Officer who captures a dragon&#8217;s egg in a sea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[96,165,282,400,434,532,697],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-book-pick","category-science-fiction","tag-alternate-history","tag-book","tag-dragons","tag-hornblower","tag-jane-austen","tag-monday-book-pick","tag-scifi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-lA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}