{"id":8191,"date":"2015-05-08T13:06:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8191"},"modified":"2015-05-19T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:54:21","slug":"review-tain-bo-cualnge-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2015\/05\/08\/review-tain-bo-cualnge-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: T\u00c3\u00a1in B\u00c3\u00b3 C\u00c3\u00baalnge. English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/19307254\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1386577632m\/19307254.jpg\" alt=\"T\u00c3\u00a1in B\u00c3\u00b3 C\u00c3\u00baalnge. English\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/19307254\">T\u00c3\u00a1in B\u00c3\u00b3 C\u00c3\u00baalnge. English<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/3317818\">L. Winifred Faraday<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1263318434\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I put out a call on Facebook for suggestions on Gaelic mythology to read. This was the top suggestion.<\/p>\n<p>This strongly reminded me of Norse and Saxon epics. All account for the names of places by describing the battles undertaken there. Each is more fantastic than the next.<\/p>\n<p>This one follows C\u00c3\u00bachulainn, the Hound of Ulster. He battles against the armies of queen Medb. He can stun dozens of swans with a single throw of a stone. Or use thrown spears as stepping stones. You know&#8230; The kind of stuff one would see in an ancient China martial arts movie such as &#8220;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.&#8221; Which reminds me, there <strong>MUST<\/strong> be a movie about this epic, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1263318434\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00c3\u00a1in B\u00c3\u00b3 C\u00c3\u00baalnge. English by L. Winifred Faraday My rating: 4 of 5 stars I put out a call on Facebook for suggestions on Gaelic mythology to read. This was the top suggestion. This strongly reminded me of Norse and Saxon epics. All account for the names of places by describing the battles undertaken there. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256],"tags":[2706,2990,2993,2991,2989,2994,2988,2992],"class_list":["post-8191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","tag-book-review","tag-cuchulainn","tag-celtic-mythology","tag-gaelic-mythology","tag-l-winifred-faraday","tag-medb","tag-tain-bo-cualnge","tag-ulster-cycle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-287","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}