{"id":1356,"date":"2010-01-22T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2011-08-28T16:14:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T21:14:24","slug":"fiction_undisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/01\/fiction_undisco.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: Undiscovered Country, by Lin Enger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/01\/dads_and_my_rea-4.html\">challenge<\/a> book for December.  Dad skipped out on this one (after I skipped out on November). \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I liked it but didn&#8217;t entirely love it.<\/p>\n<p>Liked the MN winter setting. Liked the kid and his inner thoughts.  Found some of the mom \/ kid stuff handled a bit weird. Liked the little brother stuff. Hated the girlfriend&#8217;s dad storyline and found it a bit distracting.  Some unexpected twists.  I liked it better at the beginning than the end.<\/p>\n<p>I would be interested in reading what Enger does next.<\/p>\n<p>Now all I can think about is how long it&#8217;s been since I&#8217;ve been out on a frozen lake visiting the ice fisherman. You would NOT even believe how much stuff some of them put in their icehouses. I mean we&#8217;re talking electric generator-powered heaters and TVs and all kinds of crazy stuff. NO JOKE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our challenge book for December. Dad skipped out on this one (after I skipped out on November). \ud83d\ude42 I liked it but didn&#8217;t entirely love it. Liked the MN winter setting. Liked the kid and his inner thoughts. Found some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/01\/fiction_undisco.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":[13,46,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-challenge_09","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","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=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}