{"id":5901,"date":"2014-08-24T20:06:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T00:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2016-10-12T14:54:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:54:43","slug":"conqueror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/conqueror\/","title":{"rendered":"Conqueror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5.5} <strong>Conqueror<\/strong> by Stephen Baxter, published in 2007<\/p>\n<p>Another tour of the history of England with stops in 607, 793, 872, and 1066. This one shows how invaders become locals within a few generations and then are threatened by other invaders. There&#8217;s a different prophecy than in the first book and various people are trying to make sure that it comes true. It&#8217;s perhaps a bit more challenging than a book with one set of characters all the way through, but I found it fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>I also reviewed the previous book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/emperor\/\"><strong>Emperor<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5.5} Conqueror by Stephen Baxter, published in 2007 Another tour of the history of England with stops in 607, 793, 872, and 1066. This one shows how invaders become locals within a few generations and then are threatened by other invaders. There&#8217;s a different prophecy than in the first book and various people are trying [&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":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-5901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901","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=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9622,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions\/9622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}