{"id":6044,"date":"2015-01-01T16:31:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2016-10-11T14:01:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:01:25","slug":"dune-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/dune-messiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Dune Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;If you need something to worship, then worship life\u00a0&#8212; all life, every last crawling bit of it! We&#8217;re all in this beauty together!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dune Messiah <\/strong>by Frank Herbert, published in 1969<\/p>\n<p>Paul Maud&#8217;dib has been Emperor for 12 years. Many are happy with his reign, and a few are conspiring against him. Some think of him as a god, because of his ability to see the future. Paul is desperately trying to avoid the terrible things he sees coming. It&#8217;s a short book but there&#8217;s lots in it. There&#8217;s no setup &#8212; it assumes you&#8217;ve read <strong>Dune<\/strong>. If you have read <strong>Dune<\/strong>, you&#8217;ll want to read this one too.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time I&#8217;ve read it.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed the first novel in this series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/dune\/\"><strong>Dune<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;If you need something to worship, then worship life\u00a0&#8212; all life, every last crawling bit of it! We&#8217;re all in this beauty together!&#8221; Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert, published in 1969 Paul Maud&#8217;dib has been Emperor for 12 years. Many are happy with his reign, and a few are conspiring against him. Some think [&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-6044","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\/6044","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=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9544,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions\/9544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}