{"id":2083,"date":"2017-05-18T15:55:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T21:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2017-05-18T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T21:55:21","slug":"in-the-unlikely-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2083","title":{"rendered":"In the Unlikely Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Judy Blume, audiobook narrated by Kathleen McInerney, 2015, Random House Audio<\/p>\n<p>This is a novel based on three plane crashes that occurred in the city of Elizabeth, NJ, in the early 1950&#8217;s within the time span of a few weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 All three resulted in the fatalities of all the passengers and crew and the last two also resulted in casualties on the ground.\u00c2\u00a0 The third crash resulted in the closure of the Newark airport for a period of time and the rerouting of the approaches and departures away from the residential areas in Elizabeth.\u00c2\u00a0 Judy Blume grew up in Elizabeth during that time and, therefore,\u00c2\u00a0recalls the crashes from her childhood and the effects they had on her.<\/p>\n<p>The author weaves a story about the some of the families that were affected by these crashes and the emotional toll that it extracted on those who witnessed the events.\u00c2\u00a0 The book, however,\u00c2\u00a0is more\u00c2\u00a0of a\u00c2\u00a0fictional chronical of the characters than an actual historical novel.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good story to listen to as we travelled from Florida to Rhode Island but\u00c2\u00a0it seemed\u00c2\u00a0somewhat slow at times.\u00c2\u00a0 The characters were\u00c2\u00a0portrayed well and it kept us engaged.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-0.gif\" alt=\"3 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Judy Blume, audiobook narrated by Kathleen McInerney, 2015, Random House Audio This is a novel based on three plane crashes that occurred in the city of Elizabeth, NJ, in the early 1950&#8217;s within the time span of a few <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2083\"><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-2083","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\/2083","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=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}