{"id":7265,"date":"2020-10-31T22:46:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T04:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=7265"},"modified":"2020-10-31T22:46:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T04:46:34","slug":"a-night-in-the-lonesome-october-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=7265","title":{"rendered":"A Night in the Lonesome October revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/b9aa01f9b749478596c4e377641444341587343_v5-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/b9aa01f9b749478596c4e377641444341587343_v5-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/b9aa01f9b749478596c4e377641444341587343_v5.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/>Cool thing about finally reading <a title=\"A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny, at Amazon\" href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Night-Lonesome-October-Roger-Zelazny\/dp\/0380972239\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Night in the Lonesome October<\/a> <a title=\"My first review of A Night in the Lonesome October\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">again<\/a>: I have done this on a month when October ended in a full moon, as the plot demands. Also, and if I&#8217;m being real, moreso cool, I did it as a family. I mean, Malcolm wasn&#8217;t really old enough to catch the finer points of the adventures of Snuff and his human, Jack, and he doesn&#8217;t have the literary context to catch the sundry references on display, but he does like to hear me read.<\/p>\n<p>If this gets to be annual, which I don&#8217;t fully expect that it will, I am not going to write a new review each year, in which I decline to discuss the plot any more deeply than I already have. But this time seems relevant nevertheless. And so, a fairly belated Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool thing about finally reading A Night in the Lonesome October again: I have done this on a month when October ended in a full moon, as the plot demands. Also, and if I&#8217;m being real, moreso cool, I did it as a family. I mean, Malcolm wasn&#8217;t really old enough to catch the finer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-7265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265","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=7265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7266,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions\/7266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}