{"id":1121,"date":"2004-05-20T20:50:18","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T00:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/20\/the-quincunx\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T22:51:42","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T02:51:42","slug":"the-quincunx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/20\/the-quincunx\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quincunx."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I just finished reading The Quincunx, and I was a bit disappointed with the ending [spoiler alert &#8211; don&#8217;t read the rest if you don&#8217;t want to know what happens].  I mean, this kid spends 700 pages trying to right centuries of injustice in order to reclaim his inheritance, and then at the end, the author doesn&#8217;t tell us what he&#8217;s going to do?  That&#8217;s cheating.  I get that now John is in a position to genuinely make that choice, without threats from any of the other interested\/competing parties, but still.  And the character, who was supposed to have matured over a decade over the course of the book, suffering immense hardship, still seemed at times like the petulant, petty little boy that he started out being.  Anyway, I&#8217;ve moved on and am currently reading the biography of Alexander Hamilton, because I haven&#8217;t read some good New York City history, my favorite subject, in a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading The Quincunx, and I was a bit disappointed with the ending [spoiler alert &#8211; don&#8217;t read the rest if you don&#8217;t want to know what happens]. I mean, this kid spends 700 pages trying to right centuries of injustice in order to reclaim his inheritance, and then at the end, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-i5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}