{"id":169,"date":"2004-05-11T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesots.com\/wordpress\/?p=0"},"modified":"2013-01-20T16:28:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T16:28:44","slug":"the-horse-whisperer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/169","title":{"rendered":"The Horse Whisperer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last, I have finished reading <i>The Horse Whisperer<\/i>, a book by Nicholas Evans. It&#8217;s been one of those books which has been a struggle to finish. I don&#8217;t like reading stuff where people have affairs and the author is writing it as if they&#8217;re doing the right thing. It just does my head in, so I end up skimming most of it just so I can finish the book.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can get on to <i>The Courtship of Morrice Buckler<\/i>, by A. E. W. Mason, the same guy who wrote one of my favourite books, <i>The Four Feathers<\/i>. Hopefully it will be a lot better. Although Nicholas Evans also wrote <i>The Smoke Jumper<\/i>, which I thought was a great book, so Mason might also have written some rubbish. Who knows? (Me, quite soon.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last, I have finished reading The Horse Whisperer, a book by Nicholas Evans. It&#8217;s been one of those books which has been a struggle to finish. I don&#8217;t like reading stuff where people have affairs and the author is writing it as if they&#8217;re doing the right thing. It just does my head in, &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/169\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}