{"id":3670,"date":"2009-12-10T08:29:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T08:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2019-08-01T09:15:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:15:15","slug":"about-past-farpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2009\/12\/10\/about-past-farpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"About Past Farpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog was set up to allow me to post reviews of <em>TNG<\/em> novels, including thoughts and links to other pertinent reviews or resources. <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">For the time being, new posts will appear once a week.<\/span> At this time reviews will appear on the first Sunday of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The author can be contacted easily, either by posting anywhere on the blog or else by sending an email to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">pastfarpoint<\/span> (at gmail.com).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog was set up to allow me to post reviews of TNG novels, including thoughts and links to other pertinent reviews or resources. For the time being, new posts will appear once a week. At this time reviews will appear on the first Sunday of the month. The author can be contacted easily, either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,90,198,40,69,46],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-blog-posts","category-book-review","category-pastfarpoint","category-star-trek","category-tng-novel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":97,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2010\/01\/24\/masks-tng\/","url_meta":{"origin":3670,"position":0},"title":"Masks (TNG)","author":"pastfarpoint","date":"January 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Masks, by John Vornholt, is the seventh of the numbered TNG novels. 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