{"id":9604,"date":"2018-08-03T09:54:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=9604"},"modified":"2018-08-03T09:54:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:54:26","slug":"nice-bit-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/03\/nice-bit-of-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Bit of Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing much to say here, I just liked something I read during my morning commute. One of the most common scenes in any <em>Star Wars<\/em>-related novel is, of course, an enemy fighter getting pasted by the <em>Millennium Falcon<\/em>&#8216;s mighty quad-mounted laser turrets. I&#8217;ve read countless variations on that theme over the years, and I imagine it&#8217;s an immense challenge for a writer to find some way of making it fresh and interesting. But I thought this particular instance was done with a lot of panache:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The enemy wriggled off the hook once more, but this one made an error, too: he got sore. Veering in a wide, angry, predictable loop, he came back to have his vengeance. Instead, he got four parallel pulsed beams of raw fusion-reactor output straight in the helmet visor.<\/p>\n<p>And exploded, showering space with incandescent atoms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That&#8217;s from <em>Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon <\/em>by L. Neil Smith&#8230; kudos, sir!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/star-wars_falcon-quad-gun-firing-1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9605\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/star-wars_falcon-quad-gun-firing-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing much to say here, I just liked something I read during my morning commute. One of the most common scenes in any Star Wars-related novel is, of course, an enemy fighter getting pasted by the Millennium Falcon&#8216;s mighty quad-mounted laser turrets. I&#8217;ve read countless variations on that theme over the years, and I imagine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars","category-the-bookshelf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}