{"id":58,"date":"2007-09-05T14:40:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T21:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2015-06-06T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T04:51:11","slug":"echo-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Echo Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Michael Connelly, 2006<\/p>\n

I picked this book up at Wal-Mart when I was on a camping trip to New York and I couldn’t find a decent book store in Plattsburg, so I wasn’t expecting much.\u00c2\u00a0 It is surprisingly good.\u00c2\u00a0 The prose is well-written and the plot hangs together pretty well.\u00c2\u00a0 Connelly’s character development is very spare and he lets little bits of description and action define them.<\/p>\n

Overall, a good read, especially when compared to some books that I have read recently by David Baldacci, James Patterson, and Michael Crichton.\u00c2\u00a0 \"four<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Michael Connelly, 2006 I picked this book up at Wal-Mart when I was on a camping trip to New York and I couldn’t find a decent book store in Plattsburg, so I wasn’t expecting much.\u00c2\u00a0 It is surprisingly good.\u00c2\u00a0 …<\/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":[5,14],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}