{"id":82,"date":"2009-09-04T15:21:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T22:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-11-13T19:12:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T03:12:58","slug":"the-cry-of-the-halidon-by-robert-ludlum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"The Cry of the Halidon  by Robert Ludlum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/49738\/book\/36199027\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"workCoverImage alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.librarything.com\/picsizes\/26\/3d\/263d9b1c46f84de592f2f525341434d414f4541.jpg\" alt=\"The Cry of the Halidon by Robert Ludlum\" width=\"112\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>I was disappointed in this one, I coulnd&#8217;t quite get into it.  The characters didn&#8217;t seem very real and needed more development.  As a result, I was reading as an observer without feeling for the characters or caring how things would come out.<\/p>\n<p>The suspense\/mystery portion of the story didn&#8217;t completely make sense.  mabye I missed an element, but it made it difficult to follow.  The action got exciting toward the end, but the book didn&#8217;t impress me well overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was disappointed in this one, I coulnd&#8217;t quite get into it. The characters didn&#8217;t seem very real and needed more development. As a result, I was reading as an observer without feeling for the characters or caring how things would come out. The suspense\/mystery portion of the story didn&#8217;t completely make sense. mabye I [&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-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}