{"id":199,"date":"2010-08-16T20:41:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2018-01-04T20:45:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:45:29","slug":"nothing-so-strange-james-hilton-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2010\/08\/nothing-so-strange-james-hilton-1947\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Nothing So Strange<\/i>, James Hilton (1947)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d loved <em>Goodbye, Mr. Chips<\/em> since reading it in a Reader&#8217;s Digest collection my grandmother owned (as I recall). I got on a James Hilton kick about 25 years ago for a silly reason&#8211;I confused Jack Finney&#8217;s <em>Time and Again<\/em> with Hilton&#8217;s <em>Time and Time Again<\/em>. I&#8217;m not sure if I read this on that original kick, but it sure didn&#8217;t hold up now. A very slow-paced, talky novel about a scientist who has a nervous breakdown about nuclear science. Weirdest is the early on realization by the narrator that her mother and Brad, the protagonist, were having an affair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d loved Goodbye, Mr. Chips since reading it in a Reader&#8217;s Digest collection my grandmother owned (as I recall). I got on a James Hilton kick about 25 years ago for a silly reason&#8211;I confused Jack Finney&#8217;s Time and Again with Hilton&#8217;s Time and Time Again. I&#8217;m not sure if I read this on that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}