{"id":51109,"date":"2024-04-20T15:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T22:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51109"},"modified":"2024-11-17T17:46:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T01:46:42","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-ethan-of-athos-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/04\/20\/%f0%9f%93%9a-ethan-of-athos-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>28\/2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/b3f78238-9080-40c7-994a-497373434441\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bit of a deviation from the main thread of the Vorkosigan , but still related (similar to how Rogue One is \u201cA Star Wars Story\u201d). Bujold continues to demonstrate a gift for creating flawed but endearing characters and dropping them into situations both amusing and adventurous. And while I wouldn\u2019t have expected much from a sheltered, na\u00efve, gay obstetrician who\u2019s never met a woman in his life before venturing off-planet, title character Ethan makes for a very entertaining protagonist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/lmb_eoa-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Ethan of Athos\" title=\"lmb_eoa.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Bujold continues to demonstrate a gift for creating flawed but endearing characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[5779,5780],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51109"}],"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=51109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}