{"id":1733,"date":"2015-05-17T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2015-05-31T08:24:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T14:24:33","slug":"a-blaze-of-glory-a-novel-of-the-battle-of-shiloh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1733","title":{"rendered":"A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"btAsinTitle\">by Jeff Shaara, Audiobook, 2012, Narrated by Paul Michael, Random House Audio <\/span><\/p>\n<p>We listened to this audiobook on our semi-annual trip from Florida to Rhode Island.\u00c2\u00a0 The audiobook was 18 CD&#8217;s so it consumed about 2 1\/2 days of our three-day trip.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though it was long and, at times, seemed even longer than it was, the author made it interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 By writing this in novel format he made the individuals seem to come to life.\u00c2\u00a0 At the same time, however, the historical contents were well-researched and accurate.\u00c2\u00a0 The narration was also very good.<\/p>\n<p>We had no prior knowledge of the battle or the circumstances that brought the two armies together and this was a much more enjoyable means to gain that knowledge compared to a dry, blow-by-blow history of the battle.\u00c2\u00a0 I would recommend this book. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"4 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-4-0.gif\" alt=\"4 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jeff Shaara, Audiobook, 2012, Narrated by Paul Michael, Random House Audio We listened to this audiobook on our semi-annual trip from Florida to Rhode Island.\u00c2\u00a0 The audiobook was 18 CD&#8217;s so it consumed about 2 1\/2 days of our <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1733\"><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":[5,14],"tags":[26,15,19],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-civil-war","tag-fiction","tag-historical-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","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=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}