{"id":2339,"date":"2014-11-04T00:12:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T06:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2014-11-04T00:12:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T06:12:05","slug":"on-discussion-and-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2339","title":{"rendered":"On Discussion and Spoilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Crown of Renewal<\/em> has been out long enough now that it&#8217;s OK to discuss it&#8211;and the rest of the existing Paksworld books&#8211;without needing to use Spoiler Space.<\/p>\n<p>However, a question for the group:  Some of you have by now read the Paksworld story &#8220;First Blood&#8221; in <em>Shattered Shields<\/em> and others of you may not have&#8230;and yet you might want to discuss it in relation to the surrounding milieu.  The same is\/will be true of &#8220;Mercenary&#8217;s Honor&#8221; in the forthcoming <em>Operation Arcana<\/em> anthology, and the new (and maybe older) Paksworld short fiction in <em>Deeds of Honor<\/em>.  So do we need a Spoiler Space specifically for short fiction?  Does it bother you as much when a short piece is discussed before you&#8217;ve read it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crown of Renewal has been out long enough now that it&#8217;s OK to discuss it&#8211;and the rest of the existing Paksworld books&#8211;without needing to use Spoiler Space. However, a question for the group: Some of you have by now read the Paksworld story &#8220;First Blood&#8221; in Shattered Shields and others of you may not have&#8230;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,57,80],"tags":[112,58,114],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-reader-help","category-spoiler-space","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-reader-help-wanted","tag-spoiler-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339"}],"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=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}