{"id":2391,"date":"2021-04-03T08:45:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T07:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/03\/howards-conan\/"},"modified":"2021-04-03T08:45:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T07:45:29","slug":"howards-conan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/03\/howards-conan\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard\u2019s Conan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Still working my way through the <em>Conan<\/em> stories and it\u2019s (sadly) clear that the better Conan stories so far are indeed the ones by Robert E. Howard. I\u2019ve always been wary of the dismissal of de Camp\u2019s and Carter\u2019s stories as merely pastiche, but it does seem that there\u2019s something qualitatively different about a Howard story. (It could be that Howard often breaks his stories up into different narrative perspectives, rather than following Conan exclusively. A little like early Hollywood movies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still working my way through the Conan stories and it\u2019s (sadly) clear that the better Conan stories so far are indeed the ones by Robert E. Howard. I\u2019ve always been wary of the dismissal of de Camp\u2019s and Carter\u2019s stories as merely pastiche, but it does seem that there\u2019s something qualitatively different about a Howard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}