{"id":50,"date":"2007-05-04T16:27:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T23:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2018-12-14T22:20:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T04:20:34","slug":"flashman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Flashman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by George MacDonald Fraser, 1969<\/p>\n<p>This book is a very interesting account of the adventures of a scoundrel in the British army who ends up participating in many fascinating historical events.&nbsp; This is the first of the series and it starts with Flashman at a boarding school and explains how he subsequently joins the army and is shipped off to India and Afghanistan as an officer.&nbsp; The predicaments he gets into and, just as entertaining, how he gets out of them, are the basis of the story.<\/p>\n<p>The book&#8217;s historical backdrop is probably its most redeeming value.&nbsp; Flashman is so decadent, however, that I found myself glad that my children didn&#8217;t read it when they were growing up and I hope my grandchildren don&#8217;t ever get their hands on it.&nbsp; He is definately not a role model for young people to emulate.<\/p>\n<p>The book is&nbsp;not politically correct in terms of today&#8217;s standards.&nbsp; His view of women as objects to be defiled and the books use of the &#8220;n&#8221; word to refer to Afghan natives&nbsp;are definately not to be&nbsp;admired, even though one might argue that these practices are both accurate from an historic perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The book is well-written and&nbsp;entertaining; I think I may come back and read other books in the series at some future date.&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"three stars\" alt=\"three stars\" src=\"\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-0.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by George MacDonald Fraser, 1969 This book is a very interesting account of the adventures of a scoundrel in the British army who ends up participating in many fascinating historical events.&nbsp; This is the first of the series and it <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=50\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,19],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-historical-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}