{"id":677,"date":"2010-08-24T09:42:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T21:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2010-08-24T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T22:03:08","slug":"sons-of-kahn-the-apocrypha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/677\/","title":{"rendered":"Sons of Kahn: The Apocrypha"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

I normally do not indulge in blog posts that merely link to other blog posts or articles, but I shall make an exception for the latest installment in the Homerian Epic: Sons of Kahn from Verity Stob<\/a>. \u00a0As ever, the Sons of Kahn theme provides much humour and hilarity, tinged imho with the faintest of bitterness stemming from the truth it conveys.<\/p>\n

If you love Delphi, know a little of it’s history and have a sense of humour, then I can heartily recommend that you track down some of Verity Stob’s earlier works in this tome<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span> I normally do not indulge in blog posts that merely link to other blog posts or articles, but I shall make an exception for the latest installment in the Homerian Epic: Sons of Kahn from Verity Stob. \u00a0As ever, the Sons of Kahn theme provides much humour and hilarity, tinged imho with the faintest of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[292,118,117],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-aV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1347,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1347\/","url_meta":{"origin":677,"position":0},"title":"Verity Delivers Another Sermon from the Book of Kahn","date":"12 Dec 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Verity Stob has always been good value, and the Sons of Kahn Series has attained worshipful status. 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