{"id":49739,"date":"2023-08-31T14:08:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T21:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49739"},"modified":"2023-09-10T16:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T23:13:04","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-sourcery-by-terry-pratchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/31\/%f0%9f%93%9a-sourcery-by-terry-pratchett\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Sourcery by Terry Pratchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1140,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/afae6874-bc94-4405-b0d5-f3f6c0a5b557&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20241108173102\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/afae6874-bc94-4405-b0d5-f3f6c0a5b557&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 05:45:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 06:36:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 20:04:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 07:39:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 07:39:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>43\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/afae6874-bc94-4405-b0d5-f3f6c0a5b557\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back to the wizards of Discworld. Last time (in <em>Equal Rites<\/em>) we had the eighth child of an eighth child, this time we have the eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son, all wizards, making them a &#8220;sourcerer&#8221; &#8212; someone who can tap into the very source of magic to create new magic. This does not go well for the Discworld, or for hapless reluctant participant (not really a hero) Rincewind. Once again, somehow, while not necessarily <em>doing<\/em> much, the Luggage is a standout character.<\/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\/2023\/08\/tp-s-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding my iPad with Sourcery shown on the screen.\" title=\"tp-s.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, somehow, while not necessarily _doing_ much, the Luggage is a standout character.<\/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],"tags":[5759,2165],"class_list":["post-49739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49739","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=49739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}