{"id":2521,"date":"2013-12-29T21:59:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T21:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2025-06-04T20:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:56:34","slug":"the-long-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/the-long-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb\" title=\"The Long War\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/longwar.jpg\" alt=\"The Long War\" height=\"160px\" \/><br \/>\nThe first book in this series, <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/the-long-earth\/\">The Long Earth<\/a>, was mildly baffling &#8211; not because of the story itself but because it left me with a &#8220;why&#8221; question mark about the point of the story.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Having read this second book the puzzle is slightly reduced but only because it now seems clear that the authors have a vision (or at least an intent) to have a number of books and therefore the first was very much an introduction to the concept and the characters. Yes, the second has more of a story (or actually stories), but it still leaves unanswered &#8220;what&#8217;s the point&#8221;!!<\/p>\n<p>Still &#8211; interesting idea and interesting read &#8211; makes you think a bit even if you are not sure why&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first book in this series, The Long Earth, was mildly baffling &#8211; not because of the story itself but because it left me with a &#8220;why&#8221; question mark about the point of the story.<\/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":[80,87,110,119],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-complexity","tag-fun","tag-systems-thinking","tag-worldview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","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=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}