{"id":251,"date":"2007-07-27T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=251"},"modified":"2007-07-27T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T05:04:00","slug":"boys-life-by-robert-mccammon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2007\/07\/boys-life-by-robert-mccammon.html","title":{"rendered":"Boy&#8217;s Life by Robert McCammon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671743058\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Boy&#8217;s Life<\/a> is nominally a mystery story but mainly it&#8217;s the story of a boy, about 12, growing up in a small town in the 60s.  I found the small-town, real-life portrait interesting.  The characters were nicely drawn and the boy had just the right amount of innocence without being all Rugrats.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the mystery was lackadaisical and the occasional mystical injections were jarring.  Here&#8217;s this almost hyper-real portrayal of small town life interrupted occasionally by supernatural monsters and or high speed car chases.  Then the author wraps it up with a character who wrote a nice story about small town life but who was forced by his publishers to add a mystery into it.  How meta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy&#8217;s Life is nominally a mystery story but mainly it&#8217;s the story of a boy, about 12, growing up in a small town in the 60s. I found the small-town, real-life portrait interesting. The characters were nicely drawn and the boy had just the right amount of innocence without being all Rugrats. On the other [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","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=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}