{"id":2970,"date":"2022-06-21T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2022-06-26T08:38:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T14:38:03","slug":"billy-summers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2970","title":{"rendered":"Billy Summers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Stephen King, 2021, Kindle Edition, Scribner <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 stars\"\/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a very interesting tale about a former army sharpshooter who becomes a hired assassin.  The book focuses on what he considers his last contract, but he doesn&#8217;t know much about who is footing the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King weaves a captivating tale about a conflicted individual, but it sometimes seems to bog down.  It&#8217;s a big book, over 500 pages, and most of the action takes place in the last one hundred or so pages.  Stephen King is a very good writer and he makes the reading of his work very easy.  He does, however, take his time setting the stage as he definitely does in this novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen King, 2021, Kindle Edition, Scribner &nbsp; This is a very interesting tale about a former army sharpshooter who becomes a hired assassin. The book focuses on what he considers his last contract, but he doesn&#8217;t know much about <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2970\"><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-2970","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\/2970","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=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}