{"id":266,"date":"2007-11-25T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=266"},"modified":"2007-11-25T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T17:44:00","slug":"high-wind-in-jamaica-by-richard-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2007\/11\/high-wind-in-jamaica-by-richard-hughes.html","title":{"rendered":"A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an odd little book.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0940322153\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">A High Wind in Jamaica<\/a> is written from a naively savage child&#8217;s eye viewpoint.  The children are both believable and terrifying while the tone is light, humorous, and deeply irreverent on some fairly serious topics.  The kids fall into one catastrophic situation after another, all of which seem mundane to them.  Meanwhile they fixate on seemingly minor incidents like the loss of a pet.  In the end it mostly comes out all right, but the kids don&#8217;t care much one way or another.  Except about that pet.  Curiouser and curiouser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an odd little book. A High Wind in Jamaica is written from a naively savage child&#8217;s eye viewpoint. The children are both believable and terrifying while the tone is light, humorous, and deeply irreverent on some fairly serious topics. The kids fall into one catastrophic situation after another, all of which seem mundane to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-best","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}