{"id":52696,"date":"2026-01-21T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52696"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:43:14","slug":"casual-by-koji-a-dae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/01\/21\/casual-by-koji-a-dae\/","title":{"rendered":"Casual by Koji A. Dae"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:83,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/c682cd30-4de6-4966-be17-f52b3a2eabe7&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 3 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/c682cd30-4de6-4966-be17-f52b3a2eabe7\"><cite>Casual<\/cite><\/a> by Koji A. Dae.<\/p>\n<p>First Philip K. Dick award nominee of the year. As such, <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/philip-k-dick-award-reading\/#noreviews\">not reviewed<\/a>.<\/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\/2026\/01\/IMG_5594.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Casual\" title=\"IMG_5594.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 3 of 2026: <cite>Casual<\/cite> by Koji A. Dae. First Philip K. Dick award nominee of the year.<\/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":[6996,4101],"class_list":["post-52696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-koji-a-dae","tag-philip-k-dick-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52696","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=52696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52697,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52696\/revisions\/52697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}