{"id":52933,"date":"2026-07-25T17:32:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52933"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:41:14","slug":"guards-guards-by-terry-pratchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/07\/25\/guards-guards-by-terry-pratchett\/","title":{"rendered":"Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 32 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/be78e6cf-cba5-43e2-b32b-96c074e3aa83\"><cite>Guards! Guards!<\/cite><\/a> by Terry Pratchett<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Dragons large and small, guards of somewhat questionable repute, and, of course, evil schemes for power. Another fun adventure with Pratchett\u2019s undercurrent of social commentary throughout.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6554-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Guards! Guards!\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6554-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6554-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6554-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6554-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6554-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:17434,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/be78e6cf-cba5-43e2-b32b-96c074e3aa83&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250811055710\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/be78e6cf-cba5-43e2-b32b-96c074e3aa83&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-27 00:40:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-27 00:40:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 32 of 2026: \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Another fun adventure with Pratchett\u2019s undercurrent of social commentary throughout. <\/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":[5759,2165],"class_list":["post-52933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52933","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=52933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52939,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52933\/revisions\/52939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}