{"id":539,"date":"2007-08-09T17:51:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T17:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=539"},"modified":"2011-10-29T12:31:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T17:31:51","slug":"mystery_risk_by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/08\/mystery_risk_by.html","title":{"rendered":"Mystery: &#8220;Risk&#8221; by Dick Francis (reread)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was my company on the blanket at Lollapalooza on Sunday.  Dick Francis is like comfort food to me.  The mac&#8217;n&#8217;cheese of mysteries.  The tomato soup in my readin&#8217; week.  I can (and have) read some of these over and over.<\/p>\n<p>He rarely repeats a character, but two books of his that I have read a zillion times over are &#8220;Bolt&#8221; and &#8220;Break In&#8221; both featuring Kit Fielding.  If you like mysteries, and you like horses, and jockeys, and racing, and the occasional princess, then high thee to a bookstore.  You won&#8217;t be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my company on the blanket at Lollapalooza on Sunday. Dick Francis is like comfort food to me. The mac&#8217;n&#8217;cheese of mysteries. The tomato soup in my readin&#8217; week. I can (and have) read some of these over and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/08\/mystery_risk_by.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-539","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\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}