{"id":5941,"date":"2014-09-15T19:04:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T23:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=5941"},"modified":"2023-08-28T20:09:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T00:09:51","slug":"shaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/shaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Bad things don\u2019t just grow on one path, they\u2019re everywhere. So don\u2019t blame yourself when those things happen. Don\u2019t let yesterday take up much of today.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shaman<\/strong> by Kim Stanley Robinson, released in 2013<\/p>\n<p>Loon is in training to become the next shaman. Before that he has to go on his wander &#8212; starting out naked and taking nothing with him, he must survive on his own for days. This is an amazing story of a time thousands of years ago when all humans were hunter-gatherers. It contains truths that are relevant today.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed Robinson&#8217;s novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/2312\/\"><strong>2312<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Bad things don\u2019t just grow on one path, they\u2019re everywhere. So don\u2019t blame yourself when those things happen. Don\u2019t let yesterday take up much of today.\u201d&#8221; Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson, released in 2013 Loon is in training to become the next shaman. Before that he has to go on his wander &#8212; starting [&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":[7,170,28,5],"class_list":["post-5941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-historical-fiction","tag-novels","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941","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=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9617,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions\/9617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}