{"id":216,"date":"2007-09-07T19:18:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T19:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/?p=216"},"modified":"2007-09-07T19:18:37","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T19:18:37","slug":"prevvies-waste-precious-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/prevvies-waste-precious-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevvies Waste Precious Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was nearing the end of the book, Exile, from the <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legacy_of_the_Force\">Star Wars: Legacy of the Force<\/a> series. The plot was tense and I was eager to see how the last couple chapters, still waiting under my right thumb, would turn out. As I was finishing a chapter I thought to myself, &#8220;Self, this seems to be tying things up a bit prematurely.&#8221; Then I reached the last paragraph of the chapter and realized why I&#8217;d had that impression. The book was done. Or rather, the &#8216;Exile&#8217; part of the book was done. The last bunch of pages was devoted to a preview of the next book in the series! I was like, &#8220;Dude, that is so not cool! I don&#8217;t want a preview &#8211; I&#8217;ll read that stuff when I get the next book. No point in spoiling things now.&#8221; Either put in a preview of some other series, or save a tree and end the book there. It&#8217;s like those TV shows where you think there will still be a few more minutes of action after a commercial break at the 8:50 mark only to find out that a &#8216;next episode&#8217; preview and credits fritter away the minutes left till the hour. OK, I guess some people like the prevvies. I&#8217;m not among them. I like the mystery of not knowing what&#8217;s coming down the pipe (at least in books and shows). But that&#8217;s just me&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was nearing the end of the book, Exile, from the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force series. The plot was tense and I was eager to see how the last couple chapters, still waiting under my right thumb, would turn out. As I was finishing a chapter I thought to myself, &#8220;Self, this seems &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/prevvies-waste-precious-pages\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}