{"id":2579,"date":"2009-03-26T16:47:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T20:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2009-03-26T16:47:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T20:47:21","slug":"monday-book-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/science-fiction\/monday-book-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Monday, I post a book I enjoyed and think my dear readers will as well.<\/p>\n<p>The latest was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743435710\/eclipsswebwarren\" target=\"_top\"><strong>On Basilisk Station<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by David Weber.<\/p>\n<p>The first book in David Weber&#8217;s best selling Honor Harrington series. Often, and accurately called &#8220;Horatio Hornblower in Space,&#8221; this series tells the tale of an Officer in Royal Manticorian Navy. In this book, she is a Commander and has just received her second &#8220;Hyper&#8221; command. Set in the far future, the series has a definate &#8220;Age of Sail&#8221; feel, with missle broadsides instead cannon broadsides.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/monday_book_picks.html\">this year&#8217;s archive<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/monday_book_picks_2008.html\">last year&#8217;s archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Monday, I post a book I enjoyed and think my dear readers will as well. The latest was\u00a0On Basilisk Station\u00a0by David Weber. The first book in David Weber&#8217;s best selling Honor Harrington series. Often, and accurately called &#8220;Horatio Hornblower in Space,&#8221; this series tells the tale of an Officer in Royal Manticorian Navy. In [&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":[37,24],"tags":[136,165,257,532,696],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baen-books","category-science-fiction","tag-baen","tag-book","tag-david-weber","tag-monday-book-pick","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-FB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","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=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}