{"id":2101,"date":"2017-07-13T13:41:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T19:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2020-03-05T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T19:18:11","slug":"saving-sophie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2101","title":{"rendered":"Saving Sophie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Ronald H. Balson, 2015, St. Martin&#8217;s Griffin, New York<\/p>\n<p>This is a very interesting novel about a girl being abducted by her grandfather and the attempts to get her back from the West Bank in Israel.&nbsp; The book is a fast read and is interesting.&nbsp; The author weaves historical facts about Israel and the Palestinians into a suspenseful novel.<\/p>\n<p>The ending is a bit of a letdown, but otherwise it is a decent novel.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3 1\/2 stars\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ronald H. Balson, 2015, St. Martin&#8217;s Griffin, New York This is a very interesting novel about a girl being abducted by her grandfather and the attempts to get her back from the West Bank in Israel.&nbsp; The book is <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2101\"><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-2101","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\/2101","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=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}