{"id":8006,"date":"2009-12-04T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T22:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=8006"},"modified":"2009-12-04T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T22:54:56","slug":"conan-the-immortal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/conan-the-immortal\/","title":{"rendered":"Conan the Immortal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8007\" title=\"xaltotun_mainimage\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/xaltotun_mainimage.jpg\" alt=\"xaltotun_mainimage\" width=\"124\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/xaltotun_mainimage.jpg 124w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/xaltotun_mainimage-119x150.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 124px) 100vw, 124px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Much as I enjoy the work of Robert E. Howard, he does occasionally write in such a rush that he makes a mistake.\u00a0 One such mistake occurs in <em>\u201cThe Hour of the Dragon\u201d<\/em> when he learns the true nature and origin of Xaltotun.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u201cAcheron,\u201d he repeated. \u201cXaltotun of Acheron &#8212; man, are you mad? Acheron has been a myth for more centuries than I can remember.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Which raises the question, how many centuries does Conan remember? Obviously Howard meant that Acheron had been a myth for so long no one knew how many centuries ago it was known to be real; instead he gives the impression of a centuries-old Conan, who seems a pretty feisty guy for someone that aged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much as I enjoy the work of Robert E. Howard, he does occasionally write in such a rush that he makes a mistake.\u00a0 One such mistake occurs in \u201cThe Hour of the Dragon\u201d when he learns the true nature and origin of Xaltotun. \u00a0\u201cAcheron,\u201d he repeated. \u201cXaltotun of Acheron &#8212; man, are you mad? Acheron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,46,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errata-in-reh-books","category-robert-e-howard","category-literary-reputation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8008,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions\/8008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}