{"id":52471,"date":"2025-10-11T08:16:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52471"},"modified":"2025-10-11T08:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:19:44","slug":"paladin-fo-souls-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/10\/11\/paladin-fo-souls-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold\/","title":{"rendered":"Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 54 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/97057bdf-ab43-48d5-a731-27fad4aa80ea\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a> 2004 Hugo Best Novel<\/p>\n<p>This one ended up drawing me in. Bujold is just <em>so<\/em> good at creating and developing her characters, and Ista (along with the rest of her retinue) is a delight.<\/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\/10\/IMG_5105.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Paladin of Souls\" title=\"IMG_5105.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 54\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Bujold is just _so_ good at creating and developing her characters.<\/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":[3313,5779,6941],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52471"}],"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=52471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}