{"id":25494,"date":"2013-01-25T14:14:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T14:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2013\/01\/review-the-prince\/25494"},"modified":"2013-01-25T14:14:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T14:14:16","slug":"review-the-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2013\/01\/25494\/review-the-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/10287219\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Prince\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/64f938a401_10287219.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/10287219\">The Prince<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/16201\">Niccol\u00c3\u00b2 Machiavelli<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/516486310\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had been expecting something more dry and boring. The Prince was a far quicker read than I thought it would be. Machiavelli doesn&#8217;t bother with flowery terms or dragging out his points.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be good to see how it compares to Erasmus&#8217; The Education of a Christian Prince<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/516486310\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Originally published at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.herdivineshadow.com\/2013\/01\/review-the-prince\/\">half girl, half robot<\/a>. You can comment here or <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.herdivineshadow.com\/2013\/01\/review-the-prince\/#comments\">there<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/herdivineshadow.livejournal.com\/1074327.html\">Link to the original site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prince by Niccol\u00c3\u00b2 Machiavelli My rating: 4 of 5 stars I had been expecting something more dry and boring. The Prince was a far quicker read than I thought it would be. Machiavelli doesn&#8217;t bother with flowery terms or dragging out his points. It&#8217;ll be good to see how it compares to Erasmus&#8217; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2013\/01\/25494\/review-the-prince\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: The Prince<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reblogged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}