{"id":174,"date":"2006-04-15T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/replicatedmeat.nocturne.org\/wordpress\/?p=174"},"modified":"2006-04-15T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-16T03:50:00","slug":"the-lunatic-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"The Lunatic Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had this idea to read an old science fiction novel that I&#8217;ve never really opened before. So, I found a copy and the time was ripe, and I started reading. Then, about three chapters in, I left it in the theater after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/archives\/2006\/04\/slither_2006.html\">Slither<\/a>, and despite a lack of shows between then and when I showed up the next day to ask after it: gone! Thusly, the book closest to hand was the next Anita Blake, and I read that instead.<\/p>\n<p>And then, I waited for days to say anything about it, because although I enjoyed it, I&#8217;m running out of things to say. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/051513452X\/\">The Lunatic Cafe<\/a> had yet another reasonably good mystery (not feasibly solvable like <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0412253\/\">Veronica Mars<\/a>, but fun to watch unfold), still more wacky dating hijinks with local vampires and werewolves, and a heroine whose pluck has not diminished over the half-year I&#8217;ve been reading. In short, if the first one was readable, this one is too. But it&#8217;s not really any different, except for the plot and incremental growth in character depth. So, y&#8217;know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had this idea to read an old science fiction novel that I&#8217;ve never really opened before. So, I found a copy and the time was ripe, and I started reading. Then, about three chapters in, I left it in the theater after Slither, and despite a lack of shows between then and when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}