{"id":2654,"date":"2010-09-22T15:38:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T20:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2010-09-22T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T20:38:48","slug":"the-color-of-magic-terry-pratchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=2654","title":{"rendered":"The Color of Magic ~ Terry Pratchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/colorofmagic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2655\" title=\"colorofmagic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/colorofmagic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a>In the first book in Pratchett&#8217;s Discworld series, we meet wizard school dropout Rincewind. The Discworld is a flat disc held up by four elephants riding on the back of a giant turtle that wanders through space. Due to a bit of mischief, Rincewind has been imprinted with one of the 8 most powerful spells, but can no longer perform any basic magic. But, he&#8217;s very good at languages! One day, he meets a man named Twoflower, the first ever tourist on the Discworld who hires him as a guide. What seems as a way to get some easy money becomes a life-threatening adventure, because it seems wherever Twoflower goes, danger and destruction are sure to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Pratchett&#8217;s book is an excellent parody of traditional high fantasy. Think of him as the Douglas Adams of the fantasy world. There are lots of in-jokes, off-the-wall humor and plenty of cult appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first book in Pratchett&#8217;s Discworld series, we meet wizard school dropout Rincewind. The Discworld is a flat disc held up by four elephants riding on the back of a giant turtle that wanders through space. Due to a bit of mischief, Rincewind has been imprinted with one of the 8 most powerful spells,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[71,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-GO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}