{"id":209,"date":"2010-11-28T21:18:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T21:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2010-11-28T21:18:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T21:18:18","slug":"shibumi-trevanian-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2010\/11\/shibumi-trevanian-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Shibumi<\/i>, Trevanian &#8211; 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for classic can&#8217;t-put-&#8217;em-down stuff that I hadn&#8217;t read yet, and found this on some list of &#8220;best thrillers.&#8221; I did enjoy it quite a bit, but man is it weird. Trevanian was apparently quite a character and it&#8217;s reflected in his highly-opinionated asides which trash just about everyone (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/20986980\">this list<\/a>). Having read this months ago and just posting now, I went Googling for some of the more outrageous quotes, and found both the list above and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/618012\">this excellent review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for classic can&#8217;t-put-&#8217;em-down stuff that I hadn&#8217;t read yet, and found this on some list of &#8220;best thrillers.&#8221; I did enjoy it quite a bit, but man is it weird. Trevanian was apparently quite a character and it&#8217;s reflected in his highly-opinionated asides which trash just about everyone (see this list). Having [&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-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}