{"id":626,"date":"2016-12-08T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2018-11-04T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T18:17:01","slug":"book-of-the-week-the-golden-compass-by-philip-pullman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2016\/12\/08\/book-of-the-week-the-golden-compass-by-philip-pullman-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Week: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Golden-Compass-His-Dark-Materials\/dp\/0440418321\/ref=as_li_ss_il?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1481154837&amp;sr=1-2&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=tdspeirs-20&amp;linkId=de7985ad1d2bffe4e2f57bbfd4b8b8c6\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51CS9O2mzRL._SL250_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Lyra and her daemon discover the master of Jordan College trying to poison Lord Asrael (her uncle), she has no idea the dangerous step she&#8217;s taken towards discovering the truth about Dust, daemons and disappearing children. There&#8217;s no reason to assume everything is connected in ways that could prove fatal if separated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Golden-Compass-His-Dark-Materials\/dp\/0440418321\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1481154837&amp;sr=1-2&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=tdspeirs-20&amp;linkId=90793b644744b9c524056d1676587d25\">The Golden Compass<\/a> receives a lot of praise and a lot of criticism, but one thing is undeniable: the implications of the story are as well thought out as the story itself. If you&#8217;re not left pondering the book by the time you reach its conclusion, I feel sorry for you.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re determined to hate it or love it or have no opinion, you should get your hands on a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Golden-Compass-His-Dark-Materials\/dp\/0440418321\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1481154837&amp;sr=1-2&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=tdspeirs-20&amp;linkId=90793b644744b9c524056d1676587d25\">The Golden Compass<\/a> and go read that book.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=tdspeirs-20&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=0440418321\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Lyra and her daemon discover the master of Jordan College trying to poison Lord Asrael (her uncle), she has no idea the dangerous step she&#8217;s taken towards discovering the truth about Dust, daemons and disappearing children. There&#8217;s no reason to assume everything is connected in ways that could prove fatal if separated. The Golden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-book-of-the-week","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}