{"id":26130,"date":"2022-08-21T09:53:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=26130"},"modified":"2022-08-23T09:57:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:57:48","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-devils-bargain-by-tony-daniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/08\/21\/%f0%9f%93%9a-devils-bargain-by-tony-daniel\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Devil&#8217;s Bargain by Tony Daniel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1449,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/reviews\\\/4ccd476b-8eae-45f4-b3a7-c4596a556c8e&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20220925210756\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/reviews\\\/4ccd476b-8eae-45f4-b3a7-c4596a556c8e&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 15:43:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 06:20:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-28 22:40:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-28 22:40:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>40\/2022 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/reviews\/4ccd476b-8eae-45f4-b3a7-c4596a556c8e\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A decent Trek adventure, with some interesting explorations of the Horta. However, yet another instance of Kirk immediately falling in love with a pretty woman from the planet of the week. I know it\u2019s Trek cliche, but I wish more authors would just let Kirk interact with women as people, instead of so predictably and pointlessly as romantic interests.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/devilsbargain-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Michael holding Devil's Bargain\" title=\"devilsbargain.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decent Trek adventure, with some interesting explorations of the Horta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049,2047],"tags":[4097,4150],"class_list":["post-26130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-star-trek","tag-tony-daniel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}