{"id":374,"date":"2026-02-18T20:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2026-03-15T20:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:56:52","slug":"the-last-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/the-last-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Continent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I finished The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett. I got the Collector&#8217;s Library edition and it&#8217;s a beautiful hardcover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was contemplating why I don&#8217;t love the Rincewind stories and I think it&#8217;s because things just happen to him. He has been described as a walking &#8220;No&#8221; in the face of the universe&#8217;s (Terry Pratchet&#8217;s) YES. You can&#8217;t get to know and love Rincewind, as he&#8217;s just an empty spot where you insert the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thankfully he does come packaged with The Luggage, which is always interesting. And often the Librarian, who is a treat. Overall, while not a favorite, there was plenty to enjoy in this episode of Rincewind Goes to Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett. I got the Collector&#8217;s Library edition and it&#8217;s a beautiful hardcover. I was contemplating why I don&#8217;t love the Rincewind stories and I think it&#8217;s because things just happen to him. He has been described as a walking &#8220;No&#8221; in the face of the universe&#8217;s (Terry Pratchet&#8217;s) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","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\/374","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=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grantgeiger.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}