{"id":95,"date":"2005-09-06T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/replicatedmeat.nocturne.org\/wordpress\/?p=95"},"modified":"2022-02-21T15:10:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T21:10:32","slug":"the-sandman-endless-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Endless Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/514DAJ1S88L-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/514DAJ1S88L-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/514DAJ1S88L.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/>Seven stories, one for each of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s Endless siblings. It wouldn&#8217;t seem like the best description to drum up interest in the newest (although not so very new) Sandman graphic novel, <a title=\"The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman (and others), at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1401200893\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Endless Nights<\/a>. At least, it wouldn&#8217;t to people who aren&#8217;t familiar with the series. If you are, seeing Neil Gaiman&#8217;s name attached to this property most likely comprises one of the few value guarantees out there. (I&#8217;ll try my damnedest not to gush further, when the next one of these comes up.)<\/p>\n<p>Impressions: Desire&#8217;s story made me like it a little, which I&#8217;m not sure I ever had before. (Not that this lasted for very long.) Despair, although not an actual tale in the conventional sense, was gut-wrenchingly effective. Destiny is as uninteresting as he ever was, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s his fault. Ten panels of Delight was enough to break my heart. Gaiman&#8217;s smart, to use her as sparingly as he has over all these years.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there are a couple of spoilers about the main sequence stories included here. That story is a lot more about the journey than the destination, but also these would probably be easier to appreciate by knowing the characters more thoroughly, anyhow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven stories, one for each of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s Endless siblings. It wouldn&#8217;t seem like the best description to drum up interest in the newest (although not so very new) Sandman graphic novel, Endless Nights. At least, it wouldn&#8217;t to people who aren&#8217;t familiar with the series. If you are, seeing Neil Gaiman&#8217;s name attached to [&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":[106,17,1026,214,1020,1027,1276],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-fantasy","tag-graphic-novel","tag-heartbroken","tag-ill-try-not-to-gush","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-the-journey-is-its-own-reward","tag-the-sandman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8191,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/8191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}