{"id":422,"date":"2002-07-05T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-05T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=422"},"modified":"2002-07-05T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-05T17:40:00","slug":"422","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished off Dave Barry&#8217;s first novel, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0425184129\/tomleslieca-20\">Big Trouble<\/a>, sitting in the main downtown park in Edinburgh, Scotland, on a rare sunny afternoon in July.  As a vacation book, it met the necessary criteria admirably:  it was entertaining, it didn&#8217;t require many brain cells to fire, and it wasn&#8217;t too long.  It was not, by any stretch, a great book.  2 out of 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished off Dave Barry&#8217;s first novel, Big Trouble, sitting in the main downtown park in Edinburgh, Scotland, on a rare sunny afternoon in July. As a vacation book, it met the necessary criteria admirably: it was entertaining, it didn&#8217;t require many brain cells to fire, and it wasn&#8217;t too long. It was not, by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}