{"id":10647,"date":"2006-04-10T08:10:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T13:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/10\/3-days-in-the-valley\/"},"modified":"2006-04-10T08:10:34","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T13:10:34","slug":"3-days-in-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/10\/3-days-in-the-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"3 days in the valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing like continuous bed rest for a few days to reframe a busted perspective. Before breaking down, I was starting to hate everything around me out of fatigue. Even the cats wore on the nerves.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, I read more books in the last 72 hours than in the past two weeks. Finally got around to Christopher Moore&#8217;s Practical Demonkeeping. Moore blends comedy and suspense in a unique &#8212; probably unparalleled &#8212; way. The neat part is that he&#8217;s funny in the most unexpected junctures, which makes the jokes all the more hilarious. He started out as a cult author, but no more. A Dirty Job, his latest, debuted at number 9 on the NY Times Bestseller list. Yet for all the success, he eludes the standard genre classifcation; his works are neither squarely suspense nor drama. And neither are they just comedies. Moore is more than that. He&#8217;s a special blend of all three, and a quick read, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing like continuous bed rest for a few days to reframe a busted perspective. Before breaking down, I was starting to hate everything around me out of fatigue. Even the cats wore on the nerves. On the plus side, I read more books in the last 72 hours than in the past two weeks. Finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}