{"id":52016,"date":"2025-04-15T21:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52016"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:21:35","slug":"myth-conceptions-by-robert-asprin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/04\/15\/myth-conceptions-by-robert-asprin\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth Conceptions by Robert Asprin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:597,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/29e027ac-7709-42a7-9075-54d68eea06be&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Book 22 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/29e027ac-7709-42a7-9075-54d68eea06be\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like the first, it\u2019s cute, but that\u2019s about it. I really think I\u2019d have enjoyed it more if I\u2019d read it when we were both much younger. Not that it\u2019s bad or juvenile, just that it\u2019s, well, lightly humorous fantasy from 1980, and its not going to appeal to me as a 51 year old in 2025 the same way it might have as a tween\/teen in the \u201980s.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4068-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Myth Conceptions\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4068-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4068-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4068-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4068-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4068-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 22\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Cute, but that\u2019s about it. I really think I\u2019d have enjoyed it more if I\u2019d read it when we were both much younger.<\/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":[5935,5934],"class_list":["post-52016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-myth-adventures","tag-robert-asprin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52016","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=52016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52339,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52016\/revisions\/52339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}