{"id":28,"date":"2006-04-07T18:30:44","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T01:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/07\/28\/"},"modified":"2006-04-07T18:30:44","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T01:30:44","slug":"28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Widderwhatsis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really nerdily excited about Charles de Lint&#8217;s new Newford novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0765312859\/104-3599427-6282313\">Widdershins<\/a>, due out in May. So imagine the exponential increase in excitement and nerdiness when I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/charlesdelint\/widdershins-excerpt01.htm\">this lengthy excerpt<\/a> posted on his website today.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m especially thrilled because this is the one that finally addresses the long-simmering loooohhve between fan favorites Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell. I think I was a Jilly\/Geordie &#8216;shipper before I even knew what being a &#8220;&#8216;shipper&#8221; meant.<\/p>\n<p>A few things that struck me about this excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>\n1. Thank freakin&#8217; GOD Jilly finally dumped boring old Daniel. I always pictured him looking like Daniel Cosgrove, aka NotBrandon on 90210.<\/p>\n<p>\n2. Aw, Christiana&#8217;s back! I love her. She has one of the coolest, weirdest backstories of any de Lint character, I think.<\/p>\n<p>\n3. Is someone in their twenties really &#8220;half&#8221; Geordie&#8217;s age? Jesus. That makes me feel old. I remember these characters when they were young, hot little things themselves (of course, I think I was in high school or junior high at the time. So it&#8217;s been, ahem, a while).<\/p>\n<p>\nBetween this and X-Men 3 and all the TV season finale shiznit, May really can&#8217;t come soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really nerdily excited about Charles de Lint&#8217;s new Newford novel, Widdershins, due out in May. So imagine the exponential increase in excitement and nerdiness when I found this lengthy excerpt posted on his website today. I&#8217;m especially thrilled because this is the one that finally addresses the long-simmering loooohhve between fan favorites Jilly Coppercorn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}