{"id":20449,"date":"2013-09-16T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=20449"},"modified":"2013-09-15T20:47:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T00:47:56","slug":"crowdsourcing-the-essentials-epic-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/09\/16\/crowdsourcing-the-essentials-epic-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing The Essentials: Epic Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last go around: <a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/08\/26\/crowdsourcing-the-essentials-non-us-poc-sci-fi-and-fantasy\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/08\/26\/crowdsourcing-the-essentials-non-us-poc-sci-fi-and-fantasy\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>POC Non-US SFF<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time:<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re dropping the hammer.<\/p>\n<p>THE BIG HAMMER.<\/p>\n<p>The hammer called &#8220;epic fantasy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I suspect this&#8217;ll be a big one. I&#8217;m guessing you guys have lots of passionate opinions about what counts as essential epic fantasy, yeah? Time to get into it, then. Your job: drop into the comments, give us your top three epic fantasy reads that you consider\u00a0<em>critical<\/em> in terms of the subgenre.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, we&#8217;ll compile and put up a top ten list here.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to discuss what epic fantasy even\u00a0<em>means<\/em> or\u00a0<em>is<\/em> to you, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Top three epic fantasy reads (series or individual books, your call).<\/p>\n<p>Go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last go around: POC Non-US SFF. This time: We&#8217;re dropping the hammer. THE BIG HAMMER. The hammer called &#8220;epic fantasy.&#8221; I suspect this&#8217;ll be a big one. I&#8217;m guessing you guys have lots of passionate opinions about what counts as essential epic fantasy, yeah? Time to get into it, then. Your job: drop into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-5jP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20453,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20449\/revisions\/20453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}