{"id":15365,"date":"2020-01-04T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=15365"},"modified":"2020-01-04T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T17:14:09","slug":"the-philosopher-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-philosopher-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philosopher Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I had become human to learn about will and consequences and the significance of mortal life. There were things I had learned, and no doubt there was more to learn. But as for things I could do better incarnate &#8212; beyond learning that it seemed to amount to suffering, and waiting. Perhaps there was something else Simmea wanted me to learn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Philosopher Kings<\/strong> by Jo Walton, published in 2015<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years after the Last Debate, there were 5 cities on Thera. They each had their own ideas of how to live the good life, and they were in a constant state of skirmishing with one another. When Simmea is killed in an art raid, her mate Pytheas &#8212; who is really Apollo &#8212; vows revenge.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-just-city\/\"><strong>The Just City<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The point of view characters are: Maia, Apollo, and Arete &#8212; child of Apollo and Simmea.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about different ideas of increasing excellence, and learning new things. It&#8217;s about how you can eventually get used to horrible things.<\/p>\n<p>Readers of <strong>The Just City<\/strong> will want to continue to discover what Walton has in store for these characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I had become human to learn about will and consequences and the significance of mortal life. There were things I had learned, and no doubt there was more to learn. But as for things I could do better incarnate &#8212; beyond learning that it seemed to amount to suffering, and waiting. Perhaps there was [&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-15365","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\/15365","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=15365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15367,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15365\/revisions\/15367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}