{"id":2460,"date":"2017-03-01T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2025-06-04T21:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T21:00:03","slug":"consider-phlebas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/consider-phlebas\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider Phlebas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb\" title=\"Consider Phlebas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/considerphlebas.jpg\" alt=\"Consider Phlebas\" height=\"160px\" \/><br \/>\nHaving read <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/the-crow-road\/\">The Crow Road<\/a> a while back I reckoned I should sample some of Banks&#8217; Science Fiction. So here I am &#8211; the previous novel was good &#8211; but away from what I would say was my &#8220;normal&#8221; reading &#8211; will be interesting to see how this stacks up (and whether I then go on to the subsequent volumes in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having read The Crow Road a while back I reckoned I should sample some of Banks&#8217; Science Fiction. So here I am &#8211; the previous novel was good &#8211; but away from what I would say was my &#8220;normal&#8221; reading &#8211; will be interesting to see how this stacks up (and whether I then go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/consider-phlebas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Consider Phlebas&#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-2460","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\/2460","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=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}