{"id":703,"date":"2011-05-19T15:01:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T14:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2011-06-19T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T14:05:55","slug":"present-tense-book-review-akira-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/present-tense-book-review-akira-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Present Tense Book Review &#8211; Akira: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(<a href='\/blog\/archives\/395'>Part Two<\/a> of this Present Tense Book Review.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVolumes 5 of Akira has already been thrown into the arena of <a href='\/blog\/archives\/473'>one of my book battles<\/a>, where I rather obliquely discussed its merits with rather tortuous metaphors. I finished Volume 6 some time ago, and then completely forgot that I needed to write up my thoughts. So: it&#8217;s excellent. And that&#8217;ll probably do &#8211; I think it&#8217;s a shame that wonderful books like this don&#8217;t get a wider audience, but I doubt if I could write anything to persuade you to read it, if you&#8217;re not already inclined to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Part Two of this Present Tense Book Review.) Volumes 5 of Akira has already been thrown into the arena of one of my book battles, where I rather obliquely discussed its merits with rather tortuous metaphors. I finished Volume 6 some time ago, and then completely forgot that I needed to write up my thoughts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}