{"id":144,"date":"2005-01-25T07:29:46","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T07:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2005\/01\/25\/the-gravitys-rainbow-deathmarch-week-3\/"},"modified":"2005-01-25T07:29:46","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T07:29:46","slug":"the-gravitys-rainbow-deathmarch-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2005\/01\/25\/the-gravitys-rainbow-deathmarch-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we started this venture with an astounding 35 or so folks out the gate. And inevitably, people are beginning to tumble off the trail. (Well, we wouldn&#8217;t call it a deathmarch if it was easy&#8230;.)<br \/>\nAt this rate, by my calculations, -5 people will finish the journey. But what&#8217;s math, right? A poor predictor of the human soul.<br \/>\nMarch on you valiant page turners, though thy arms ache to pluck mysteries from thy sagging bookshelf, though thy very retina begin to shake and swell, march on!<br \/>\nAround 20-25 people appear to be head down, still making progress, some commenting on these threads, and others reading along offline but opting to forsake much coveted Grand Poobah status. I respect that. And I will toast them when the march is done, with fine champagne in a sturdy mug.<br \/>\nFor now, you&#8217;ve found the spot to comment on pages 113-167 plus or minus.<br \/>\n<b>Next week:<\/b> Let&#8217;s meet up at page 226 (263 in Bantam), a section that ends with the phrase &#8220;&#8230;with a war on&#8230;.&#8221; (Sorry for the spoiler&#8230;)<br \/>\nSee you there, -CV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we started this venture with an astounding 35 or so folks out the gate. And inevitably, people are beginning to tumble off the trail. (Well, we wouldn&#8217;t call it a deathmarch if it was easy&#8230;.) At this rate, by my calculations, -5 people will finish the journey. But what&#8217;s math, right? A poor predictor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archiveddms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}