{"id":2453,"date":"2019-07-27T13:57:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T19:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2019-08-05T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T20:04:54","slug":"warlight-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2453","title":{"rendered":"Warlight: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Michael Ondaatje, narrated by Steve West, 2018, Random House Audio<\/p>\n

This is a story about a young after World War II in England who does not know why his mother and father abandoned him during the War.\u00c2\u00a0 He gradually comes to understand that his mother was engaged in the intelligence service during the war and this is what took her away from her family.\u00c2\u00a0 She made every attempt to protect her children but she was eventually found out after the war and murdered.<\/p>\n

The book tends to meander about but the author manages to pull the disparate parts together at the end.\u00c2\u00a0 It was okay to listen to but I didn’t think it was really special. \"2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Michael Ondaatje, narrated by Steve West, 2018, Random House Audio This is a story about a young after World War II in England who does not know why his mother and father abandoned him during the War.\u00c2\u00a0 He gradually …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-2453","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\/2453","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=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}