{"id":1346,"date":"2010-01-22T10:18:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T10:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2011-10-29T18:38:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T23:38:55","slug":"mystery_even_mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/01\/mystery_even_mo.html","title":{"rendered":"Mystery: Even Money, by Dick Francis (and Felix Francis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me just put it out there that I LOVE DICK FRANCIS.  I do.  I LOVE most of his books.  I got completely addicted to them the summer I lived in the UK with my cousins and I&#8217;ve never stopped reading (and re-reading) them since.  I know they&#8217;re all horse centered and I know some of the main characters are really similar and sometimes you really get the sensation of this just being one long ongoing story and I know they can be cheesy&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>But I love his writing and I particularly LOVELOVELOVE &#8220;<strong>Bolt<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>Break In<\/strong>&#8221; and they are two of my very, very favorite all-time books&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But this book?  &#8220;Even Money&#8221;?  SUCKED.<\/strong>  Worst Dick Francis I&#8217;ve ever read. I was sorely disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Read &#8220;Bolt&#8221; or &#8220;Break In&#8221; and know the love.  Avoid this book like the plague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me just put it out there that I LOVE DICK FRANCIS. I do. I LOVE most of his books. I got completely addicted to them the summer I lived in the UK with my cousins and I&#8217;ve never stopped &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/01\/mystery_even_mo.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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","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=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}