{"id":2555,"date":"2021-06-03T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/03\/dark-matter-by-michelle-paver\/"},"modified":"2021-06-03T17:02:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:02:45","slug":"dark-matter-by-michelle-paver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/03\/dark-matter-by-michelle-paver\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter by Michelle Paver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_0787-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_0787-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_0787-665x1024.jpg 665w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_0787-768x1183.jpg 768w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_0787-997x1536.jpg 997w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_0787-1329x2048.jpg 1329w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_0787-330x508.jpg 330w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_0787-690x1063.jpg 690w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_0787-1050x1618.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_0787-376x580.jpg 376w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_0787.jpg 1428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Finished <em>Dark Matter<\/em> quickly. It&#8217;s an Arctic ghost story. It felt slight to me: as if it&#8217;s really a short story that&#8217;s been padded out. The premise and setting are engaging, even if the characters are a little too <em>Brideshead<\/em>. The connection between the scientific concept of dark matter and the darkness of the Arctic night works well. It just didn&#8217;t need the explanation of who the ghost was. Would have been better with the ghost as a nameless, unknowable horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finished Dark Matter quickly. It&#8217;s an Arctic ghost story. It felt slight to me: as if it&#8217;s really a short story that&#8217;s been padded out. The premise and setting are engaging, even if the characters are a little too Brideshead. The connection between the scientific concept of dark matter and the darkness of the Arctic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","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=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}