{"id":697,"date":"2007-12-03T20:21:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T20:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=697"},"modified":"2007-12-03T20:21:56","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T20:21:56","slug":"mystery_true_ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/mystery_true_ev.html","title":{"rendered":"Mystery: &#8220;True Evil&#8221; by Greg Iles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know when something in a book can just creep you out so much because you don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s something the author just dreamed up out of nowhere or if he&#8217;s read about it and the ability to do that horrible thing is actually out there right now in the real world and could be happening to people?   And I&#8217;m not talking &#8220;horrible thing&#8221; like something in a crazy horror\/ slasher\/ murder flick.  I&#8217;m talking subtly yicky yicky mentally-disturbing &#8220;what if people are really doing that?&#8221; horrible.  And it&#8217;s not the part about hiring someone to kill off your spouse instead of you going through a divorce.  I&#8217;ve still kinda got the skeeves.  But that&#8217;s really why you read a book like this one: to get your scary kicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know when something in a book can just creep you out so much because you don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s something the author just dreamed up out of nowhere or if he&#8217;s read about it and the ability to do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/mystery_true_ev.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-697","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\/697","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=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}