{"id":2059,"date":"2017-01-20T16:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T22:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2017-02-01T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T22:40:12","slug":"the-nix-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2059","title":{"rendered":"The Nix: a novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Nathan Hill, 2016, a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York<\/p>\n<p>This book is pretty fascinating.\u00c2\u00a0 It interweaves topics such as computer game addiction with the anti-war protests that occurred during the 1968 Democratic convention in\u00c2\u00a0Chicago, along with Nordic myths.\u00c2\u00a0 The author did a fair amount of research on all of these topics and managed to pull them together into a compelling novel.<\/p>\n<p>As with many novels, however, the author relied heavily on some improbable circumstances which sometimes strained my belief.\u00c2\u00a0 I would cut him some slack in this regard as the story he spins is pretty fascinating.<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 Nathan Hill, 2016, a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York This book is pretty fascinating.\u00c2\u00a0 It interweaves topics such as computer game addiction with the anti-war protests that occurred during the 1968 Democratic convention in\u00c2\u00a0Chicago, along <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2059\"><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":[15],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","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=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}