{"id":2785,"date":"2006-10-27T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:50","slug":"genius-of-pratchett-wintersmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2785","title":{"rendered":"The Genius of Pratchett: Wintersmith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Tiffany Aching has finally gotten the hang &#8212; a bit &#8212; of her life. She knows she&#8217;s basically going to work to be a witch, because that&#8217;s what witching is &#8212; Work. It&#8217;s being the Wise Woman when one is needed, being the herbalist, when someone sick needs the brewing of tea, it&#8217;s visiting <img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/images.overstock.com\/f\/102\/3117\/8h\/www.overstock.com\/images\/products\/muze\/books\/0060890312.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>the elderly, cleaning up, and making cheese. There&#8217;s just not that much more to it than that, except the Boffo, which is kind of necessary. Other than that, that&#8217;s it &#8211; no dancing around in one&#8217;s underdrawers. No flashing and crackling lights. Just&#8230; sort of serving others, and using the broom to get around long distances.<\/p>\n<p>Tiffany would be okay with that, really. Mostly. It&#8217;s just that, life when you&#8217;re thirteen is sort of complicated unintentionally. For one thing, there&#8217;s boys. Only, Tiffany&#8230; hasn&#8217;t attracted an average boy. She&#8217;s gotten a minor deity all in a lather over her. Or, rather, all in an avalanche, maybe&#8230; The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&amp;isbn=9780060890315\" target=\"_blank\">Wintersmith<\/a> is who&#8217;s crushing on Tiffany. And he&#8217;s &#8230; winter. Blizzards and avalanches and freezing cold and icicles. And his crush is pretty heavy.<\/p>\n<p>Summer&#8217;s ticked off at her, Winter&#8217;s chasing her, and Tiff&#8217;s going to need to think fast to get herself through the mess she made, and onward to Spring. Good thing she&#8217;s got her friends, her Granny Weatherwax, Mrs. Ogg, and a lot of nasty little blue men to help her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Tiffany Aching has finally gotten the hang &#8212; a bit &#8212; of her life. She knows she&#8217;s basically going to work to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}