{"id":184,"date":"2006-08-09T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2006-08-09T04:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T08:39:00","slug":"the-brethren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Brethren&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bats seem to be everywhere these days, particularly for the people in my office at work. I saw one in a used bookstore this weekend, just chilling in the mystery section.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps because I had bats on the mind, I was astonished to see a new-to-me John Grisham title: <i>The Brethren<\/i>. I immediately thought &#8220;Cool! Vampire Lawyers!&#8221; and picked it up. However, reading the back of the book, I found out that unfortunately he&#8217;s using the word brethren in a decidedly non-vampirish way: instead referring to a brotherhood or association of professionals&#8230; kind of like the actual definition of the word. Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>I was a little disappointed at that (and I&#8217;ve found Grisham getting pretty dull lately, so he really should consider that vampire lawyer idea). Then I had to sit around and wonder how it was that I automatically think of an underground (often literally) society of conspiratorial vampires whenever I see the word &#8220;brethren&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bats seem to be everywhere these days, particularly for the people in my office at work. I saw one in a used bookstore this weekend, just chilling in the mystery section. Perhaps because I had bats on the mind, I was astonished to see a new-to-me John Grisham title: The Brethren. I immediately thought &#8220;Cool! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}