{"id":2443,"date":"2017-09-16T17:05:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T01:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2017-09-16T17:05:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T01:05:31","slug":"review-the-mark-of-zorro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2443","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Mark of Zorro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given my love of serial fiction &#8211; especially comics &#8211; it may be surprising that I&#8217;ve never sat down and read the original Zorro story.\u00a0 This is the 1924 <em>The Mark of Zorro<\/em>, a version of the serialized <em>Curse of Capistrano<\/em> story from Johnston McCulley, and it is a ripsnorter.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnston_McCulley\">McCulley<\/a> is a pseudonym who created many such mystery men.\u00a0 It is easy to see why Zorro is the most famous.<\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=754\">the<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering08.html#m08-m\">Sharpe<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering09.html#m09-o\">Rifles<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering07.html#m07-e\">books<\/a>, there is not too much to say about Zorro, except that it is a brilliantly written page turner.\u00a0 Check it out sometime.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given my love of serial fiction &#8211; especially comics &#8211; it may be surprising that I&#8217;ve never sat down and read the original Zorro story.\u00a0 This is the 1924 The Mark of Zorro, a version of the serialized Curse of Capistrano story from Johnston McCulley, and it is a ripsnorter.\u00a0 McCulley is a pseudonym who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}