{"id":468,"date":"2014-06-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/monday-link-salad-16\/"},"modified":"2014-06-30T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T11:00:00","slug":"monday-link-salad-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/monday-link-salad-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Link Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2961018-7\/fulltext\">A review of the British Museum Mummies exhibition<\/a> that I enjoyed reading.<\/p>\n<p>Something upsetting that&#8217;s being talked about in the SFF world at the moment is to do with Marion Zimmer Bradley (author of &#8220;Mists of Avalon&#8221;, and the Darkover series), her second husband and the sexual abuse of children.  <a href=\"http:\/\/jimhines.livejournal.com\/740267.html\">Jim Hines has a post that summarises it here<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve read several more posts on the subject including some of the ones that he links, I&#8217;m mostly linking to his because it has those links.  In brief &#8211; MZB&#8217;s second husband was a convicted child abuser both before &#038; after she married him.  She was aware of his continuing abuse of children, and didn&#8217;t find it a problem.  Her daughter has also stated that MZB abused her throughout her early childhood.  Thoroughly unpleasant.  I own several Darkover books, all bought 15-20 years ago &#038; re-read several times since.  I&#8217;m not quite sure what I&#8217;ll do about them &#8211; on the one hand the art is not the artist and I liked those books a lot in the past, but on the other hand how much does knowing more context about the author change how I see the books?  Not a question I currently have an answer to.<\/p>\n<p>TV I&#8217;m recording this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00ty6b0\">Lost Land of the Tiger<\/a> &#8211; three part series (from 2010) looking for tigers in Bhutan.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b048wss8\">Tales from the Royal Wardrobe with Lucy Worsley<\/a> &#8211; one-off programme about the last 400 years of the British monarchy, as seen through their clothes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of the British Museum Mummies exhibition that I enjoyed reading. Something upsetting that&#8217;s being talked about in the SFF world at the moment is to do with Marion Zimmer Bradley (author of &#8220;Mists of Avalon&#8221;, and the Darkover series), her second husband and the sexual abuse of children. Jim Hines has a post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/monday-link-salad-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday Link Salad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[662],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}