{"id":65,"date":"2007-12-09T20:18:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T03:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2015-06-06T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T04:47:07","slug":"the-rising-tide-a-novel-of-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"The Rising Tide, a Novel of World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Jeff Shaara, 2006<\/p>\n<p>This book wasn&#8217;t as good as I expected as it didn&#8217;t hold my attention, especially in the first part of the book.\u00c2\u00a0 I expected a bit more suspense as in the case of his father&#8217;s book on Gettysburg, but it just didn&#8217;t seem to deliver.\u00c2\u00a0 I found the reading to get better as I plowed through it and I eventually finished it.<\/p>\n<p>The book was extremely well researched, however, and it provided me with knowledge of the Africa and Sicily campaign in World War II, something I knew nothing about. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"three stars\" src=\"\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-0.gif\" alt=\"three stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jeff Shaara, 2006 This book wasn&#8217;t as good as I expected as it didn&#8217;t hold my attention, especially in the first part of the book.\u00c2\u00a0 I expected a bit more suspense as in the case of his father&#8217;s book <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=65\"><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":[19,21],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-historical-novel","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}