{"id":16,"date":"2007-07-10T12:18:14","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T17:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaeddy.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2007-07-10T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T17:18:14","slug":"methuselahs-daughter-part-2-chapter-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Methuselah’s Daughter, Part 2, Chapter 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter 14 is up at 3500years.com<\/a>. This chapter is a bit incongruous, given where it’s located and what happens in it, but both Dean and I liked it too much to cut it. It’s the first point in the book where the reader learns there’s more to Zsallia than just arrogance and fear- she’s a barbarian at heart, she’s just learned to be civilized for sake of convenience. She recognizes the benefits of civilization and would never suggest a return to what some might call a more ‘natural’ human state, but when confronted with aggression she prefers to respond in kind.<\/p>\n

There’s actually a follow-up to this chapter on the blog, titled “Why do you carry a gun?”<\/a>. I’m thinking of working it into the third edition of the book because it puts much of her attitude towards the modern world, and her notions of personal responsibility, into perspective.<\/p>\n

Methuselah’s Daughter, A Novel\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chapter 14 is up at 3500years.com. This chapter is a bit incongruous, given where it’s located and what happens in it, but both Dean and I liked it too much to cut it. It’s the first point in the book where the reader learns there’s more to Zsallia than just arrogance and fear- she’s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}