{"id":2462,"date":"2011-03-28T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T11:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2011-03-28T07:31:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T11:31:11","slug":"monday-book-pick-go-tell-the-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/monday-book-pick\/monday-book-pick-go-tell-the-spartans\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Pick: Go Tell The Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671720619\/eclipsswebwarren\" target=\"_top\"><strong>Go Tell The Spartans<\/strong><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/\">Dr. Jerry Pournelle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smstirling.com\/\">S.M. Stirling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part of Pournelle&#8217;s Condominium series, and more specifically part of the Falkenberg Legion series.  An excellent read in the Military SciFi genre, and a damn good primer on low intensity conflicts as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/monday_book_picks.html\">Monday Book Pick Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SciFi Geek Bonus Points: The first mention of &#8220;Major Falkenberg&#8221; and the &#8220;Falkenberg Rifles&#8221; isn&#8217;t in a book by Mr. Pournelle. \u00a0Geek points for identifying which Military Sci-Fi book does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go Tell The Spartans by Dr. Jerry Pournelle and S.M. Stirling Part of Pournelle&#8217;s Condominium series, and more specifically part of the Falkenberg Legion series. An excellent read in the Military SciFi genre, and a damn good primer on low intensity conflicts as well. Monday Book Pick Archive SciFi Geek Bonus Points: The first mention [&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":[165,527,532,627,696,697],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-book-pick","category-science-fiction","tag-book","tag-military-science-fiction","tag-monday-book-pick","tag-pournelle","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-DI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","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=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}