{"id":3354,"date":"2023-07-07T05:11:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T11:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2023-07-07T05:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T11:11:35","slug":"the-good-pilot-peter-woodhouse-a-novel-of-love-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3354","title":{"rendered":"The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse: A Novel of Love and War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Alexander McCall Smith, 2017, Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-0.gif\" alt=\"2.0 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is about a young woman in rural England during and after WWII who becomes involved with an American pilot whom she eventually marries. The story is also about a German officer who saves the life of her husband after he is shot down on a mission over Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was somewhat disappointed in this book as it didn&#8217;t seem to capture the characters as well as some of his other books.  The dialogue is a bit stilted and the story didn&#8217;t unfold as well as it should have.  It is a nice story, but there is not much else to recommend it.  Also, the dog didn&#8217;t seem to play as much of a role as I would have expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alexander McCall Smith, 2017, Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York This book is about a young woman in rural England during and after WWII who becomes involved with an American pilot whom she eventually <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3354\"><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":[15,21],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","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=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}