{"id":11298,"date":"2017-10-18T14:35:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T18:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11298"},"modified":"2017-10-18T14:35:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T18:35:43","slug":"a-natural-history-of-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/a-natural-history-of-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"A Natural History of Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Matters which seem terribly important in the early days of such a journey (what <strong>will<\/strong> people back home say?) fade into triviality with the passage of time. It has the consequent effect of making one question how vital those matters truly are &#8212; which goes some way toward explaining my increasingly extravagant behaviour, as time went on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Natural History of Dragons<\/strong> by Marie Brennan, published in 2013<\/p>\n<p>Isabella wants to know everything there is to know about dragons. She&#8217;s read all her father&#8217;s books on the subject, and she used to study small deceased ones when she was younger. But now she must find a husband &#8212; is there any chance she could find one who shares her interest, or would allow her to pursue it?<\/p>\n<p>What if dragons were real? Then someone would study them. Isabella is the Jane Goodall of dragons.<\/p>\n<p>If you like dragons, this is the book for you &#8212; it&#8217;s 1st in a series, but can be read on its own.<\/p>\n<p>I liked it a lot &#8212; it&#8217;s a different take on dragons, and the main character is delightful.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 1st book by Brennan I&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Matters which seem terribly important in the early days of such a journey (what will people back home say?) fade into triviality with the passage of time. It has the consequent effect of making one question how vital those matters truly are &#8212; which goes some way toward explaining my increasingly extravagant behaviour, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,9,28,5],"class_list":["post-11298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-novels","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11300,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298\/revisions\/11300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}