Actually, depending on where you are in the world, it may already be well into tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0 But though it’s a few minutes to midnight here, I’m opening with the reminder that we don’t want spoilers here for a reasonable time after those waiting impatiently have a chance at the book.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We’ll have better discussions (and fewer chances of some “justifiable homicides” ) if you hold off on spoilerish discussions until everyone’s read it.\u00a0 (However, it’s not spoilerish to tell me you liked it (or hated it, though of course I’d rather not hear that.)<\/p>\n
For a similar reason, I’m not posting the first pictures of Kings <\/em>out in the world immediately (though I appreciate them) until more people have it, on the grounds that I don’t want impatient and envious fans to take vengeance on those who have it already.\u00a0 Not that any of you kind, gentle, patient, people would ever<\/em> do such a thing, but…better safe than sorry.<\/p>\n Now I realize that some of you are probably in dire need of another post to give you clues, and I hope to get that done tomorrow.\u00a0 However, that depends on the tractor repair place.\u00a0 If the tractor comes back in working order tomorrow, I simply must mow the near meadow and a wide fire-break strip around our neighbor’s yard.\u00a0 They said “Monday or Tuesday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actually, depending on where you are in the world, it may already be well into tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0 But though it’s a few minutes to midnight here, I’m opening with the reminder that we don’t want spoilers here for a reasonable time after those waiting impatiently have a chance at the book.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We’ll have better discussions (and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,80,5],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kings-of-the-north","category-spoiler-space","category-the-writing-life","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}