{"id":1746,"date":"2021-03-29T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T17:30:00","slug":"the-churn-by-james-s-a-corey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"The Churn by James S. A. Corey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/B00I82884W.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This short story is part of The Expanse series, providing the backstory for Amos Barton in a Baltimore-noir setting. Being a backstory, it doesn&#8217;t really add to what we know about Amos or his character. It does tell us something new about Earth&#8217;s darker culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It does provide Amos&#8217; history, coming-of-age in a crime-ridden part of Baltimore. It tells how he managed a crisis and came to get off-world. It doesn&#8217;t go back enough to explain his skills or personality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short story is part of The Expanse series, providing the backstory for Amos Barton in a Baltimore-noir setting. Being a backstory, it doesn&#8217;t really add to what we know about Amos or his character. It does tell us something new about Earth&#8217;s darker culture. It does provide Amos&#8217; history, coming-of-age in a crime-ridden part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[181,180],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-series","tag-james-s-a-corey","tag-the-expanse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}