{"id":2430,"date":"2019-01-08T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:24:43","slug":"conclave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/conclave\/","title":{"rendered":"Conclave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb\" title=\"Conclave\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/conclave.jpg\" alt=\"Conclave\" height=\"160px\" \/><br \/>\nChange of pace &#8211; and a return to Rome. Just started this book &#8211; so far it is keeping me interested.<\/p>\n<p>No spoilers, but nothing much happens in this book &#8211; well, that&#8217;s not strictly accurate, but for a &#8216;thriller&#8217; it is for the most part devoid of action &#8211; perhaps best described as a &#8220;political intrigue&#8221;. For me, the book also failed to deliver any real surprises &#8211; again, that is part of the &#8220;nothing happens&#8221; feeling &#8211; but it did keep me hooked to see how things ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change of pace &#8211; and a return to Rome. Just started this book &#8211; so far it is keeping me interested. No spoilers, but nothing much happens in this book &#8211; well, that&#8217;s not strictly accurate, but for a &#8216;thriller&#8217; it is for the most part devoid of action &#8211; perhaps best described as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/conclave\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conclave&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}