{"id":3221,"date":"2024-02-19T17:20:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:20:06","slug":"review-the-island-of-doctor-moreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3221","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Island of Doctor Moreau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking over my reviews of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering04.html#m04-ab\"><em>The Time Machine<\/em> and <em>The Invisible Man<\/em><\/a> I see that I touted how Wells&#8217;s social commentary was flavored by his times, but not overwhelmed by it.  I can&#8217;t really say the same for <em>Moreau<\/em>.  It&#8217;s really about very turn of the 20th century ideas about evolution, savagery, and humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe check out one of those other ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking over my reviews of The Time Machine and The Invisible Man I see that I touted how Wells&#8217;s social commentary was flavored by his times, but not overwhelmed by it. I can&#8217;t really say the same for Moreau. It&#8217;s really about very turn of the 20th century ideas about evolution, savagery, and humanity. Maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","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=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}