{"id":913,"date":"2008-06-23T17:24:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T17:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=913"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:57:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:57:40","slug":"fiction_the_far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/fiction_the_far.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: The Farther Shore, by Matthew Eck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll go back to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/a_la_super_eggp_25.html\">initial reaction<\/a>: <em>Welcome to the new generation of war novelists. Tactile and gritty and completely engrossing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A bombed-out Middle Eastern city. An isolated military unit. Sand and desert winds and sweat and dehydration and confusion. The byplay between fear and confidence.<\/p>\n<p>While it <em>is <\/em>what <em>every <\/em><strong>good <\/strong>war novel is&#8230;it is also something <em>of its own<\/em>. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll go back to my initial reaction: Welcome to the new generation of war novelists. Tactile and gritty and completely engrossing. A bombed-out Middle Eastern city. An isolated military unit. Sand and desert winds and sweat and dehydration and confusion. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/fiction_the_far.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":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3686,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/3686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}