{"id":52797,"date":"2026-05-01T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52797"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:44:09","slug":"best-defense-by-david-mack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/05\/01\/best-defense-by-david-mack\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Defense by David Mack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 15 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/b0002a39-2b2f-425b-b26b-f3e06b580fc3\"><cite>Best Defense<\/cite><\/a> by David Mack.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: I enjoyed this middle book more than the opener, as the Romulans try to disrupt peace talks between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.<\/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\/2026\/05\/IMG_6024.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Best Defense\" title=\"IMG_6024.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 15 of 2026: \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: I enjoyed this middle book more than the opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036,2049,2047],"tags":[3216,4097],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52797"}],"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=52797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}