{"id":152,"date":"2006-03-28T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=152"},"modified":"2006-03-28T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T17:21:00","slug":"airport-by-arthur-hailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/03\/airport-by-arthur-hailey.html","title":{"rendered":"Airport by Arthur Hailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0425176088\/tradgirl\" target='new'>Airport<\/a>, the book that created the disaster genre, was a re-read.  I wanted something that would capture my attention, which it did.  It starts off slowly and goes into too much detail about actual airport operations at some points, but it does a glorious job of building suspense by converging storylines.  You see it coming; they see it coming; but no one can stop it.<\/p>\n<p>The funny stuff is when he pontificates on the future of airports.  It&#8217;s funny because he&#8217;s so wrong.  It would certainly be a more exciting book with less airport background, but I suppose Hailey meant it to be a serious book of its time and not the start of a new type of shlock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airport, the book that created the disaster genre, was a re-read. I wanted something that would capture my attention, which it did. It starts off slowly and goes into too much detail about actual airport operations at some points, but it does a glorious job of building suspense by converging storylines. You see it coming; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mysteryhorrorsuspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}