{"id":500,"date":"2007-12-27T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2007-12-27T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T04:57:00","slug":"the-eyes-of-the-overworld-by-jack-vance-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/27\/the-eyes-of-the-overworld-by-jack-vance-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;The Eyes of the Overworld&quot; by Jack Vance (1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hypercastle\/2142447427\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2142\/2142447427_19b9c2e149_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hypercastle\/2142447427\/\">The Eyes of the Overworld_Jack Vance_1966<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/hypercastle\/\">M I I Z Z Z A R D<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>I seriously doubt I&#8217;ll ever read this but I found it on one of my parents&#8217; bookshelves and thought the title was awesome. Here&#8217;s a snippet from the back cover blurb: &#8220;In this world of mystery and danger, the adventurer known as Cugel the Clever was forced to undertake a quest for lucounu [sic?] the Laughing Magician &#8211; a quest that as to take him to lands stranger than any he had dreamed of, and pit his wits and his sword against <br \/><b>powers from beyond time itself<\/b>.&#8221; The bold text is what interests me.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eyes of the Overworld_Jack Vance_1966 Originally uploaded by M I I Z Z Z A R D I seriously doubt I&#8217;ll ever read this but I found it on one of my parents&#8217; bookshelves and thought the title was awesome. Here&#8217;s a snippet from the back cover blurb: &#8220;In this world of mystery and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}