{"id":1526,"date":"2010-02-01T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T22:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2010-02-01T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T22:00:59","slug":"monday-book-pick-live-free-or-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/monday-book-pick\/monday-book-pick-live-free-or-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Pick: Live Free or Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1439133328\/eclipsswebwarren\" target=\"_top\"><strong>Live Free or Die<\/strong><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnringo.com\/\">John Ringo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Woot! This book was fun! Loosely based on the back story of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schlockmercenary.com\/\">Schlock Mercenary<\/a> webcomic, John Ringo has fun with classic SciFi concepts like First Contact, asteroid mining, and big nasty space Battlecruisers! He doesn&#8217;t think small either. Lots and lots of mirrors in space make great big solar powered Death Rays!  Ringo is planning more books in this series and I&#8217;m hoping he goes E.E. &#8220;Doc&#8221; Smith big.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/monday_book_picks.html\">Monday Book Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Free or Die by John Ringo. Woot! This book was fun! Loosely based on the back story of the Schlock Mercenary webcomic, John Ringo has fun with classic SciFi concepts like First Contact, asteroid mining, and big nasty space Battlecruisers! He doesn&#8217;t think small either. Lots and lots of mirrors in space make great [&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":[37,13,24],"tags":[137,165,448,532,693,696,697,824],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baen-books","category-monday-book-pick","category-science-fiction","tag-baen-books","tag-book","tag-john-ringo","tag-monday-book-pick","tag-schlock-mercenary","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi","tag-web-comic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-oC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","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=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}