{"id":163,"date":"2006-05-15T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/wordpress\/?p=163"},"modified":"2006-05-15T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T00:01:00","slug":"horatio-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/15\/horatio-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Horatio Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in town, and having finished <em>Lieutenant Hornblower<\/em>, I resolve to make it to the DC Library to borrow <em>Hornblower and the Hotspur<\/em> rather than buy it. But then stuff comes up at work and I don&#8217;t get a chance to get to the library at lunch. So then I dash to Borders and just buy the damn thing.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>Lieutenant Hornblower<\/em> ends with him (a) asking Maria to marry him and (b) having been made commander (but not post captain) of the Hotspur. I needed to know what happens next.<\/p>\n<p>So, sure enough, <em>Hornblower and the Hotspur<\/em> begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Repeat after me,&#8221; said the parson. &#8220;I, Horatio, take thee, Maria Ellen &#8211;&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And of course Horatio&#8217;s thinking that Maria is not the right woman for him, that he&#8217;s not even suitable husband material to begin with. And of course he bravely forges ahead anyway. That&#8217;s just the kind of guy he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in town, and having finished Lieutenant Hornblower, I resolve to make it to the DC Library to borrow Hornblower and the Hotspur rather than buy it. But then stuff comes up at work and I don&#8217;t get a chance to get to the library at lunch. So then I dash to Borders and just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/15\/horatio-addiction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Horatio Addiction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}