{"id":316,"date":"2025-08-16T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2025-08-17T09:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:35:47","slug":"feet-of-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/feet-of-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"Feet of Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just finished reading Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett. The novel gets off to an excellent start with a mysterious golem sale that ends up at the heart of a coup attempt. The novel features a burgeoning cast of characters that are finally being given a modicum of depth along with social commentary on a range of topics, offering valuable insight where Pratchett was content in prior outings to make a few cheap jokes and beat them to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vimes&#8217; visit to Cockbill Street nicely encapsulates, while also romanticizing, the idea of the hard-working lower class making no headway. &#8220;The table might not have any food on it but, by gods, it was well scrubbed. That was Cockbill Street, where what you mainly ate was your pride.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The treatment of the topic of chosen pronouns is well considered, offering Captain Carrot as a paragon who always tries to understand the point of view of others but can&#8217;t immediately see past his own upbringing. I was not aware that there was any significant discussion of chosen pronouns when this novel was written, but surely there was as Pratchett certainly didn&#8217;t invent the concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Watch novels remain my favorite series within the Discworld series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett. The novel gets off to an excellent start with a mysterious golem sale that ends up at the heart of a coup attempt. The novel features a burgeoning cast of characters that are finally being given a modicum of depth along with social commentary on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","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\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}