{"id":344,"date":"2025-12-29T22:14:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:42:23","slug":"hogfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/12\/29\/hogfather\/","title":{"rendered":"Hogfather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just finished reading Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett. This one leans more into the &#8220;rampant imagination&#8221; category than &#8220;well-developed narrative.&#8221; The concept of Death standing in for Santa Claus is a great start, but the tooth-fairy tie-in didn&#8217;t work that well for me. The oh god had me feeling nauseous just remembering similar experiences. The novel lacked the sort of character development I&#8217;ve seen in Pratchett&#8217;s other serieses. Overall it was fine. I dig the cover art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett. This one leans more into the &#8220;rampant imagination&#8221; category than &#8220;well-developed narrative.&#8221; The concept of Death standing in for Santa Claus is a great start, but the tooth-fairy tie-in didn&#8217;t work that well for me. The oh god had me feeling nauseous just remembering similar experiences. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","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\/344","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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}