{"id":14757,"date":"2012-04-24T08:15:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T13:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14757"},"modified":"2012-04-24T08:15:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T13:15:11","slug":"an-excerpt-from-john-scalzis-latest-novel-redshirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/an-excerpt-from-john-scalzis-latest-novel-redshirts\/","title":{"rendered":"An excerpt from John Scalzi&#8217;s latest novel, <em>Redshirts<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi felt some sympathy for the poor lads and lasses who wear the Redshirt &#8230; the ones who only show up for the first few minutes of the show and die gruesomely, leaving the heroes to carry on. His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/stories\/2012\/03\/redshirts-prologue-chapter-1-a-2-excerpt\" target=\"_blank\">latest novel<\/a> is a bit of payback for all the members of the &#8220;away teams&#8221; who never came back.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/stories\/2012\/03\/redshirts-prologue-chapter-1-a-2-excerpt\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Redshirts_John_Scalzi.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Redshirts_John_Scalzi\" width=\"410\" height=\"612\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Redshirts_John_Scalzi.png 410w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Redshirts_John_Scalzi-100x150.png 100w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Redshirts_John_Scalzi-401x600.png 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><br \/>Click the image to see the first five chapters at the Tor.com website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi felt some sympathy for the poor lads and lasses who wear the Redshirt &#8230; the ones who only show up for the first few minutes of the show and die gruesomely, leaving the heroes to carry on. His latest novel is a bit of payback for all the members of the &#8220;away teams&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,57,28],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-14757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-media","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Q1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14759,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757\/revisions\/14759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}