{"id":496,"date":"2009-12-19T11:55:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T03:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2013-11-19T09:40:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T01:40:39","slug":"the-han-solo-of-symbology-and-religious-iconography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2009\/12\/the-han-solo-of-symbology-and-religious-iconography\/","title":{"rendered":"The Han Solo Of Symbology And Religious Iconography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dan_brown_lost_symbol1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dan_brown_lost_symbol1.jpg\" alt=\"dan_brown_lost_symbol\" title=\"dan_brown_lost_symbol\" width=\"150\" height=\"198\" style=\"margin-right:8px;\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-490\" \/><\/a>And we return to the world of Robert Langdon. Oh, how I&#8217;ve missed you.  In one of the previous books, he is described as &#8220;Harrison Ford in Harris tweed.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In chapter one we learn that Langdon&#8217;s father died while he was still a boy, perhaps in an elevator accident at the <a href=\"http:\/\/files.meetup.com\/1068503\/eiffel-tower.jpg\">Eiffel Tower<\/a>.  We also discover that he has been mentored by Peter Solomon, a 58-year old billionaire philanthropist, historian and scientist who had &#8220;taken Langdon under his wing nearly thirty years ago, in many ways filling the void left by Langdon&#8217;s father&#8217;s death*.  Despite the man&#8217;s influential family dynasty and massive wealth, Langdon had found humility and warmth in Solomon&#8217;s soft gray eyes.&#8221; There better be a pretty good explanation of how Solomon, an historian and scientist, made himself into a billionaire.  I hope he&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/tag\/robber-barons\/\">robber baron<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Peter Solomon is either going to die in the next few chapters, or turn out to be a villain.  <\/p>\n<h5>Pages Read: 9<br \/>\nPages To Go: 500<\/h5>\n<p>*Don&#8217;t you think &#8220;the death of Langdon&#8217;s father&#8221; would have been better here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we return to the world of Robert Langdon. Oh, how I&#8217;ve missed you. In one of the previous books, he is described as &#8220;Harrison Ford in Harris tweed.&#8221; In chapter one we learn that Langdon&#8217;s father died while he was still a boy, perhaps in an elevator accident at the Eiffel Tower. We also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[423,551,295,552,526],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-dan-brown","tag-harris-tweed","tag-harrison-ford","tag-peter-solomon","tag-robert-langdon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}