{"id":739,"date":"2011-11-14T20:14:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=739"},"modified":"2014-01-19T09:17:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T17:17:41","slug":"739","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Monk in Outer Space  by Lee Goldberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/3559802\/summary\/56397108\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0451220986.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Monk in Outer Space by Lee Goldberg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn this, book 5 of the series, Monk faces the shooting of a dead man, and Mr. Snork shooting the producer of a popular science fiction series.  <\/p>\n<p>Monk has to take his phobias into a science fiction convention for a series,  thinly veiled reference to Star Trek with its obsessive version of Trekkies.  <\/p>\n<p>Monk&#8217;s brother, Ambrose, plays a role in this version, even getting involved in the investigation.  We see a bit more of his character which comes out in the solution to the mystery.  <\/p>\n<p>The book is true to the series, and feels very much like seeing a tv episode.  If you enjoy the series, you&#8217;ll enjoy the book.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this, book 5 of the series, Monk faces the shooting of a dead man, and Mr. Snork shooting the producer of a popular science fiction series. Monk has to take his phobias into a science fiction convention for a series, thinly veiled reference to Star Trek with its obsessive version of Trekkies. Monk&#8217;s brother, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-mystery","category-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","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=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}