{"id":53120,"date":"2026-08-17T20:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=53120"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T20:30:07","slug":"reaper-man-by-terry-pratchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/08\/17\/reaper-man-by-terry-pratchett\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 38 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/8fd2d70c-1706-46be-8da6-3454f46ed4d6\"><cite>Reaper Man<\/cite><\/a> by Terry Pratchett.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Death gets fired, and explores life as a mortal being (more or less), while the rest of the Discworld has to figure out what&#8217;s going on when Death isn&#8217;t doing Death&#8217;s job anymore. It&#8217;s easy to see why Death is a favorite character in the Discworld series, as Pratchett continues to do a masterful job of using the character to look at life and make death (the concept) a bit less intimidating.<\/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\/09\/IMG_6705.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Reaper Man\" title=\"IMG_6705.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:17538,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/8fd2d70c-1706-46be-8da6-3454f46ed4d6&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;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 38 of 2026: \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: It&#8217;s easy to see why Death is a favorite character in the Discworld series.<\/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-53120","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\/53120","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=53120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}