{"id":412,"date":"2007-05-14T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T10:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=412"},"modified":"2015-07-11T10:08:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T15:08:17","slug":"fiction_death_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/05\/fiction_death_o.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: &#8220;Death of a Writer&#8221; by Michael Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bought because I enjoyed an earlier book of his, &#8220;The Keepers of Truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As to this one:  A novel set in academia, involving a lost manuscript, an unsolved murder, suicide, jealousy, ambition, and the lack of it.  A side story with the lead detective&#8217;s messed up life.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the beginning with Pendleton was dragging on a bit&#8230;but once he became incapacitated things really took off.  The backstory on the detective however seemed dragged in a bit.  Eventually it found its place, but I was never sure it was really necessary that it be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought because I enjoyed an earlier book of his, &#8220;The Keepers of Truth.&#8221; As to this one: A novel set in academia, involving a lost manuscript, an unsolved murder, suicide, jealousy, ambition, and the lack of it. A side story &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/05\/fiction_death_o.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","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\/412","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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}