{"id":117,"date":"2006-03-02T04:23:54","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T04:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=117"},"modified":"2010-11-13T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T03:04:10","slug":"city-of-saints-and-madmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/03\/02\/city-of-saints-and-madmen\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Saints and Madmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffvandermeer.com\/city\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/cityofsaintscover.jpg\" alt=\"cityofsaintscover.jpg\" id=\"image116\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff VanderMeer&#8217;s wonderful and award-winning fantasy tales of the sinister city of Ambergris are now back in print in the US from a major publisher. This is good to see, not only because the book is well worth your attention but also because I helped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/city.html\">design the interior<\/a>, providing title pages for the stories and designing and illustrating the whole of the &#8216;King Squid&#8217; section. Fantasy is a meagre description for this book, it&#8217;s far more inventive and intelligent than the mass of works that labour under that description in the shops. Ditch your doorstop dragon sagas and give yourself a treat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff VanderMeer&#8217;s wonderful and award-winning fantasy tales of the sinister city of Ambergris are now back in print in the US from a major publisher. This is good to see, not only because the book is well worth your attention but also because I helped design the interior, providing title pages for the stories and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/03\/02\/city-of-saints-and-madmen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City of Saints and Madmen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,21,23],"tags":[1952,142],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","category-fantasy","category-work","tag-cephalopods","tag-jeff-vandermeer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}