{"id":156,"date":"2023-08-20T21:13:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T21:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2025-05-24T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T15:05:07","slug":"witches-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/20\/witches-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Witches Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett. I have only marginally enjoyed the witch characters in previous novels, and I&#8217;ve wondered if that opinion represents a bit of innate sexism on my part. That may be the case, but this time around I fully enjoyed them as they bounced between fairy-tale parodies. I particularly enjoyed the three drinking absinthe like water while the cafe owner tried in vain to save them from a stampede of bulls. I also enjoyed Greebo&#8217;s creepy yet fun human form, and how he always wanted to be a ginger.<\/p>\n<p>The novel felt like it was missing a B-story&#8230; Greebo&#8217;s jaunt as a human felt fully integrated into the main storyline, so doesn&#8217;t do it for me. It gets a little muddy as Pratchett tries to tie up the loose ends and finish the story, but I enjoyed it to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett. I have only marginally enjoyed the witch characters in previous novels, and I&#8217;ve wondered if that opinion represents a bit of innate sexism on my part. That may be the case, but this time around I fully enjoyed them as they bounced between fairy-tale parodies. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}