{"id":474,"date":"2026-01-01T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/?p=474"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:04:48","slug":"tome-tome-again-podcast-hogfather-by-terry-pratchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/tome-tome-again-podcast-hogfather-by-terry-pratchett\/","title":{"rendered":"Tome &amp; Tome Again Podcast: Hogfather by Terry Pratchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Hogfather by Terry Pratchett\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);height:150px;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=ea3rj-1a329b9-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1b1b1b&#038;font-color=auto&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=7\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In episode 18 we talk about Terry Pratchett&#8217;s classic 1996 novel <em>Hogfather<\/em>, which uses Christmas to discuss the importance of belief and ritual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a shady client hires the Assassins Guild to eliminate the Hogfather, Death steps up to hold space for the jolly figure (with hilarious results) as his granddaughter investigates the cause for the Hogfather\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other books mentioned in this episode:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The Nowhere Child<\/em> by Christian White<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Housemaid<\/em> by Frieda McFadden<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>On Sunday She Picked Flowers<\/em> by Yah Yah Scholfield<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Wolf Who Cried Boy<\/em> by Mark Mupotsa-Russell<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Voidverse <\/em>by Damien Ober<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In episode 18 we talk about Terry Pratchett&#8217;s classic 1996 novel Hogfather, which uses Christmas to discuss the importance of belief and ritual. When a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,308],"tags":[456,43,454,318,114,316,317],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-tome-tome-again-podcast","tag-christmas-book","tag-fantasy","tag-hogfather","tag-jess-gately","tag-terry-pratchett","tag-tome-and-tome-again","tag-tota","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}