{"id":1238,"date":"2012-10-03T21:24:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T03:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2012-10-03T21:27:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T03:27:15","slug":"monday-mornings-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Monday Mornings: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Sanjay Gupta, Audiobook read by Christian Rummel, 2013, Hachette Audio<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gupta is apparently a fairly renowned medical spokesperson, but his attempt at a novel is pretty miserable.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a series of subplots with no overarching plot.\u00c2\u00a0 The characters are somewhat interesting but not to the point of really capturing this reader&#8217;s attention.\u00c2\u00a0 The author, in fact, attempts in several situations to bolster interest in a particular character through the use of flashbacks to their childhoods.\u00c2\u00a0 In one such situation he goes into an incident at a carnival in the childhood of one of the brain surgeons to illustrate the profound emotional stress that she is currently going through.\u00c2\u00a0 Really?<\/p>\n<p>This book would probably be able to feed numerous TV episodes of ER but as a novel it sucks.\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"1 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-1-5.gif\" alt=\"1 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sanjay Gupta, Audiobook read by Christian Rummel, 2013, Hachette Audio Dr. Gupta is apparently a fairly renowned medical spokesperson, but his attempt at a novel is pretty miserable.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a series of subplots with no overarching plot.\u00c2\u00a0 The <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1238\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}