{"id":495,"date":"2003-12-29T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-29T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2003-12-29T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-29T18:45:00","slug":"on-the-case-of-the-colonists-corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"On The Case of the Colonist&#039;s Corpse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to give mad props to Pocket for the red dye on the edge of <i>Colonist&#8217;s Corpse<\/i>&#8216;s pages.  That really does evoke the memory of haunting used bookshops looking for vintage 1950s\/60s paperbacks.  Maybe it would have been asking too much for the book to be printed in microtype, in a taller-than-standard size, and in 150 pages (or less!).  Still, it&#8217;s admirable that Pocket went as far as they did to evoke the feeling of an Earl Stanley Gardner pastiche from the very moment you touch the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to give mad props to Pocket for the red dye on the edge of Colonist&#8217;s Corpse&#8216;s pages. That really does evoke the memory of haunting used bookshops looking for vintage 1950s\/60s paperbacks. Maybe it would have been asking too much for the book to be printed in microtype, in a taller-than-standard size, and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=495\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On The Case of the Colonist&#039;s Corpse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4089],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-star-trek","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}