{"id":71,"date":"2008-06-12T06:11:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T13:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2015-06-06T21:38:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T03:38:56","slug":"the-bridesmade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"The Bridesmaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Ruth Rendell,\u00c2\u00a0Read by Barbara Rosenblat<\/p>\n<p>We listened to this recorded book on a long road trip.\u00c2\u00a0 The writing is fairly decent and the characters are pretty well developed.\u00c2\u00a0 The book is billed as a mystery, however, and its downfall is that it plods and plods along.\u00c2\u00a0 It needs a shot of suspense.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, the main character, Phillip, is very weak.\u00c2\u00a0 There are times when one wonders if he is just plain stupid or what.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, we probably won&#8217;t be doing future Ruth Rendell books.\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-0.gif\" alt=\"2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ruth Rendell,\u00c2\u00a0Read by Barbara Rosenblat We listened to this recorded book on a long road trip.\u00c2\u00a0 The writing is fairly decent and the characters are pretty well developed.\u00c2\u00a0 The book is billed as a mystery, however, and its downfall <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=71\"><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-71","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\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}