{"id":52663,"date":"2025-12-31T18:22:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52663"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:22:56","slug":"the-flaming-arrow-by-jerry-oltion-and-kathy-oltion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/12\/31\/the-flaming-arrow-by-jerry-oltion-and-kathy-oltion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flaming Arrow by Jerry Oltion and Kathy Oltion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:137,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/e725e914-25a3-4347-8c5f-9a498a4a2651&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 67 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/e725e914-25a3-4347-8c5f-9a498a4a2651\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost a four-star, due to a particularly imaginative doomsday weapon that really had me lost as to how they were going to technobabble their way out of it. Settled on three, though, as it is a &#8220;middle book&#8221; that doesn&#8217;t stand alone on its own. Still, a more engaging entry than many middle books end up being.<\/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\/12\/IMG_5541.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding The Flaming Arrow\" title=\"IMG_5541.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 67\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f; A particularly imaginative doomsday weapon that really had me lost as to how they were going to technobabble their way out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049,2047],"tags":[6993,6994,4097],"class_list":["post-52663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-jerry-oltion","tag-kathy-oltion","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52663","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=52663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52664,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52663\/revisions\/52664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}