{"id":4748,"date":"2013-08-24T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T19:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2013-08-24T14:40:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T19:40:50","slug":"cant-judge-these-books-by-their-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2013\/08\/24\/cant-judge-these-books-by-their-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t judge these books by their covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/book-blind-date.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" alt=\"Books wrapped in brown wrappers ready for a blind date at ABC\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s an interesting gimmick, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.nl\/\">my local science fiction bookstore<\/a>: books wrapped in brown paper, with only a couple of keywords to keep you guessing. Can you guess which books are hidden behind thes descriptions?\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>Fantasy, paranormal, suspense, Prague.<\/cite> Could be anything<\/li>\n<li><cite>Science-fiction, planet spanning shield, Earth is doomed, teleological engineering.<\/cite> Perhaps Robert Charles Wilson&#8217;s <cite>Spin<\/cite>?<\/li>\n<li><cite>Fantasy, Low Countries 1421, deluge of Biblical proportions, three conspirators.<\/cite> Dunno, but sounds interesting.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Fantasy, clash of civilisations, holy war, divided loyalties.<\/cite> Could be any epic fantasy novel<\/li>\n<li><cite>Fantasy, poker tournament, monsters and demons, underdog.<\/cite> ?<\/li>\n<li><cite>Fantasy, Mississippi, riverboat, pale gentleman.<\/cite> This could be George R. R. Martin&#8217;s <cite>Fevre Dream<\/cite>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting gimmick, from my local science fiction bookstore: books wrapped in brown paper, with only a couple of keywords to keep you guessing. Can you guess which books are hidden behind thes descriptions? Fantasy, paranormal, suspense, Prague. Could be anything Science-fiction, planet spanning shield, Earth is doomed, teleological engineering. Perhaps Robert Charles Wilson&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,137,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4749,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions\/4749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}