{"id":110,"date":"2009-12-09T15:36:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2010-11-12T23:03:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T07:03:36","slug":"death-wish-and-other-stories-by-lawrence-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Death Wish and Other Stories  by Lawrence Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/2756108\/36208249\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"workCoverImage alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.librarything.com\/picsizes\/cd\/ea\/cdea57a3d21b2075977754a5741434d414f4541.jpg\" alt=\"Death Wish and Other Stories by Lawrence Block\" width=\"112\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a>This book contains a collection of short stories by Lawrence Block.  I wanted to like it.  There are several short stories, each standing independently from the others.  Each story starts an interesting mystery, they are well told.  But the story stops just as the mystery is getting interesting.  Nothing is resolved, no one gets caught, NOTHING.  I had wondered if it was abridged and had a bad editor, nope, it wasn&#8217;t abridged.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good one to skip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book contains a collection of short stories by Lawrence Block. I wanted to like it. There are several short stories, each standing independently from the others. Each story starts an interesting mystery, they are well told. But the story stops just as the mystery is getting interesting. Nothing is resolved, no one gets caught, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}