{"id":52174,"date":"2025-07-15T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52174"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:12:40","slug":"compulsory-by-martha-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/15\/compulsory-by-martha-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Compulsory by Martha Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:434,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/9e0d0116-3aab-42f6-88a8-37010f881896&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250823183711\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/9e0d0116-3aab-42f6-88a8-37010f881896&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 05:10:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 20:15:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 11:42:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 19:55:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 18:37:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 15:13:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 15:13:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Book 37 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/9e0d0116-3aab-42f6-88a8-37010f881896\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <em>very<\/em> quick read (just a few pages). Chronologically comes before <cite>All Systems Red<\/cite>, but I&#8217;m glad I found out about it and read it after reading <cite>Artificial Condition<\/cite>, as it takes place at a time frequently referenced in that book. Just a tiny little glimpse into Murderbot&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4563.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Compulsory on my iPad\" title=\"IMG_4563.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 37\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Just a tiny little glimpse into Murderbot&#8217;s past.<\/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":[3148,6904],"class_list":["post-52174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-martha-wells","tag-the-murderbot-diaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52174","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=52174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52304,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52174\/revisions\/52304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}