{"id":224,"date":"2007-02-04T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=224"},"modified":"2007-02-04T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T23:27:00","slug":"five-bells-and-bladebone-by-martha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2007\/02\/five-bells-and-bladebone-by-martha.html","title":{"rendered":"The Five Bells and Bladebone by Martha Grimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose there was no reason to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000FOI1ZM\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">The Five Bells<\/a>, except that it was there.  I&#8217;ve read one other by her about this group of characters and it was much the same.  The overall tone isn&#8217;t bad, though a little unhurried, but the characters seem to know each other better than I know them.  It&#8217;s a series.  <\/p>\n<p>The main character, a Richard Jury, is inexplicably loved by everyone.  People, men and women, look for him to come.  I don&#8217;t understand why this is.  He seems like an ordinary sort of guy to me.  Doesn&#8217;t do any particularly brilliant police work, doesn&#8217;t harm anyone, doesn&#8217;t make up to anyone, just quietly does his business in a polite, if uninteresting, fashion.  It would be nice to believe that a man like that would be universally admired to the point of doting, but experience tells me this isn&#8217;t so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose there was no reason to read The Five Bells, except that it was there. I&#8217;ve read one other by her about this group of characters and it was much the same. The overall tone isn&#8217;t bad, though a little unhurried, but the characters seem to know each other better than I know them. [&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-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mysteryhorrorsuspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","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=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}