{"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":"<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 decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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":[],"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[3148,6904],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52174"}],"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":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52174\/revisions"}],"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}]}}