{"id":1268,"date":"2009-10-08T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T10:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2011-10-29T20:49:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T01:49:38","slug":"fiction_the_dea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/10\/fiction_the_dea.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: The Death of Sweet Mister, by Daniel Woodrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woodrell&#8217;s later book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/04\/fiction_winters.html\">&#8220;Winter&#8217;s Bone&#8221;<\/a> was one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2008\/01\/girlreaction_reads_favorites_o.html\">my very favorite books read in 2007<\/a> and I&#8217;ve finally gotten around to reading one of his earlier works.<\/p>\n<p>This novel has a similar focus on a downtrodden, lonely teen in a harsh poverty-struck landscape.  But this book is a LOT creepier than Winter&#8217;s Bone and you are not (at all) left with the same sense of hope.  That&#8217;s not a denigration \/ more of a gentle warning.<\/p>\n<p>Lovely lyrical rhythm to his writing.  But woah to come to that end&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woodrell&#8217;s later book &#8220;Winter&#8217;s Bone&#8221; was one of my very favorite books read in 2007 and I&#8217;ve finally gotten around to reading one of his earlier works. This novel has a similar focus on a downtrodden, lonely teen in a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/10\/fiction_the_dea.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}