{"id":99437,"date":"2026-03-27T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99437"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:49:48","slug":"the-greatest-scoundrel-story-ever-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/03\/27\/the-greatest-scoundrel-story-ever-written\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Scoundrel Story Ever Written"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xhZR6dPpViY?si=MqioWblYhwadoI6a\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lotuseaters Dot Com<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 29 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>Luca is joined by Dan to discuss <em>Flashman<\/em> by George MacDonald Fraser. They explore Fraser&#8217;s skill in writing historical fiction, the genius of the Harry Flashman character, and the sheer hilarity of the novel&#8217;s dark humour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotuseaters Dot Com Published 29 Nov 2025 Luca is joined by Dan to discuss Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser. They explore Fraser&#8217;s skill in writing historical fiction, the genius of the Harry Flashman character, and the sheer hilarity of the novel&#8217;s dark humour.<\/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":[32,4,7,57,23],"tags":[218,31,86,971],"class_list":["post-99437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-history","category-humour","category-india","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-criticism","tag-flashman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pRP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99437","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=99437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99438,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99437\/revisions\/99438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}