{"id":2727,"date":"2002-09-29T22:09:11","date_gmt":"2002-09-30T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2002-09-29T22:09:11","modified_gmt":"2002-09-30T03:09:11","slug":"pattern_recogni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/29\/pattern_recogni.html","title":{"rendered":"Pattern recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/paradox.of.arden.tripod.com\/quiz\/amberite.html\" target=\"new\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"coral.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/ptest\/coral.gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>One of the illegitimate offspring of King Oberon. Her mother, wife to Prime Minister Orkuz of Begma, had an affair with Amber&#8217;s king during a diplomatic visit. Coral is taller than her sister Nayda and the Prime Minister, slender with reddish brown hair. In <i>The Blood of Amber<\/i> by Roger Zelazny, Coral decides that instead of telling the Pattern where to send her, she would go ahead and let it decide to send her wherever it wanted to.  Her curiosity unwittingly opened her up to becoming a pawn between the forces of Order and Chaos.<\/small><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/paradox.of.arden.tripod.com\/quiz\/amberite.html\" target=\"new\">Which Amberite are <i>you?<\/i><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s probably about right.  Makes more sense than Oberon, which is the first thing that popped out.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/beingfrank.blogspot.com\/2002_09_22_beingfrank_archive.html#82190481\">Being Frank<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the illegitimate offspring of King Oberon. Her mother, wife to Prime Minister Orkuz of Begma, had an affair with Amber&#8217;s king during a diplomatic visit. 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