{"id":2538,"date":"2011-05-23T21:17:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T01:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2011-05-23T21:17:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T01:17:52","slug":"monday-book-pick-flaming-zeppelins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/humor\/monday-book-pick-flaming-zeppelins\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Pick: Flaming Zeppelins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1616960027\/eclipsswebwarren\" target=\"_top\"><strong>Flaming Zeppelins<\/strong><\/a> by Joe R. Landale<\/p>\n<p>A nifty little farce combining multiple historical and fictional characters in a series of adventures, complete with cross dimensional rifts to stir the pot a bit.  Reminded me of lot of Philip Jose Farmer&#8217;s writing as various fictional authors, with just a dash of Robert Heinlein&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0449130703\/eclipsswebwarren\" target=\"_top\">The Number of the Beast<\/a> thrown in for good measure.  The cast includes Annie Oakley, Wild Bill Hickock, Buffalo Bill Cody&#8217;s animated head, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Martian invaders and more.  That includes Ned the Seal.  Ned doesn&#8217;t talk, that would be silly.  He does write a lot on a notepad he wears on a chain around his neck though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/monday_book_picks.html\">Monday Book Pick Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flaming Zeppelins by Joe R. Landale A nifty little farce combining multiple historical and fictional characters in a series of adventures, complete with cross dimensional rifts to stir the pot a bit. Reminded me of lot of Philip Jose Farmer&#8217;s writing as various fictional authors, with just a dash of Robert Heinlein&#8217;s The Number of [&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":[11,13,24],"tags":[96,165,248,532,696,697],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-monday-book-pick","category-science-fiction","tag-alternate-history","tag-book","tag-cross-dimensional-rift","tag-monday-book-pick","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-EW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","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=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}