{"id":4130,"date":"2013-09-10T04:03:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T10:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2016-04-03T18:09:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T00:09:56","slug":"skin-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=4130","title":{"rendered":"Skin Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/51nHng3hYnL-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"51nHng3hYnL\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/51nHng3hYnL-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/51nHng3hYnL.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>See, I even sort of have a couple of things to say about <a title=\"Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trade-Anita-Blake-Vampire-Hunter\/dp\/0515148059\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skin Trade<\/a>, but then I think to myself, I could not begin to guess what the title actually means[1]. It has no bearing on anything I read, none at all.<\/p>\n<p>And then I think, fuck it, how can anyone else possibly still care anymore? Even the good ones are so terrible.<\/p>\n<p>So. Terrible.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Also, the saw blades on the cover? Equally random and meaningless. Perhaps title and cover are a metaphor for what lies within. There&#8217;s a kind of sadistic irony in the fact that it would be impossible to comprehend such a literally superficial metaphor without having read the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See, I even sort of have a couple of things to say about Skin Trade, but then I think to myself, I could not begin to guess what the title actually means[1]. It has no bearing on anything I read, none at all. And then I think, fuck it, how can anyone else possibly still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1098,1236,532],"class_list":["post-4130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-anita-blake","tag-paranormal-fantasy","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130","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=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5456,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions\/5456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}