{"id":1130,"date":"2014-03-04T19:59:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T03:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2014-03-05T20:17:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T04:17:05","slug":"sacred-clowns-by-tony-hillerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Sacred clowns. by Tony Hillerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/2827\/107144110\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pics-librarything.r.worldssl.net\/picsizes\/2b\/b9\/2bb9cb61c7cf38d593377685077434d414f4141.jpg\" alt=\"Sacred clowns.\nby Tony Hillerman\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Leaphorn asked Jim Chee to find a runaway schoolkid.  During this investigation, he is on the scene of a murder during a Tano ceremony.  This murder had similar characteristics to another murder, but they couldn&#8217;t be related.  Of course all three threads tie together in a fascinating story.  <\/p>\n<p>Side stories include a hit and run accident.  A relationship between Jim Chee and Janet Pete in which Jim has trouble resolving a possible clan violation in their seeing each other.  At the same time, Joe Leaphorn is planning a trip to China with Louisa Bourebonette.  <\/p>\n<p>Tony Hillerman gives the reader excellent insights into the Navajo culture, especially in the way that Jim Chee resolves his personal issues.  Through his investigations, we also get a glimpse into the Tano culture, a branch of the Pueblo tribes.  <\/p>\n<p>The book is a very good read, it keeps moving forward and has interesting developments in the mysteries.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Leaphorn asked Jim Chee to find a runaway schoolkid. During this investigation, he is on the scene of a murder during a Tano ceremony. This murder had similar characteristics to another murder, but they couldn&#8217;t be related. Of course all three threads tie together in a fascinating story. Side stories include a hit and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-series","tag-chee-leaphorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","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=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}