{"id":689,"date":"2009-07-14T08:58:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T12:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2009-07-14T08:58:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T12:58:53","slug":"monday-book-pick-a-hymn-before-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/monday-book-pick\/monday-book-pick-a-hymn-before-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Pick: A Hymn Before Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671318411\/eclipsswebwarren\" TARGET=\"_top\"><b>A Hymn Before Battle<\/b><\/a> by John Ringo<\/p>\n<p>John Ringo&#8217;s first novel, and the first in his Posleen War Series, also know as the Legacy of Aldenata series. A ripping good yarn. It has back stabbing alien &#8220;allies&#8221;, really bad bad aliens, and ends with a massive battle on an alien planet.<\/p>\n<p>Ya, I know it&#8217;s Tuesday.  I&#8217;m late.<\/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>A Hymn Before Battle by John Ringo John Ringo&#8217;s first novel, and the first in his Posleen War Series, also know as the Legacy of Aldenata series. A ripping good yarn. It has back stabbing alien &#8220;allies&#8221;, really bad bad aliens, and ends with a massive battle on an alien planet. Ya, I know it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[137,165,448,527,532,696,697],"class_list":["post-689","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-military-science-fiction","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-b7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}