{"id":3965,"date":"2025-07-31T16:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:23:13","slug":"double-whammy-skink-book-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3965","title":{"rendered":"Double Whammy (Skink Book 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> by Carl Hiaasen, 1988, Audiobook published in 2004 narrated by George Wilson, Recorded Books <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-0.gif\" alt=\"3.0 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first &#8220;Skink&#8221; book written by Hiassen so it provides information about this character who subsequently appears in many of the author&#8217;s novels.  The book probably isn&#8217;t Hiassen&#8217;s best book, but it is humorous and has some very unique (crazy?) characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is about a bass fishing tournament and a real estate developer in Florida.  The developer is a fraud, and the fishing tournament is rigged.  Sounds like Florida?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I had any criticism of the book, some of the events and characters are just a bit too much over the top.  He needs to dial it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Carl Hiaasen, 1988, Audiobook published in 2004 narrated by George Wilson, Recorded Books This is the first &#8220;Skink&#8221; book written by Hiassen so it provides information about this character who subsequently appears in many of the author&#8217;s novels. The <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3965\"><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-3965","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\/3965","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=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3966,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}