{"id":66,"date":"2005-04-17T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=66"},"modified":"2005-04-17T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T15:10:00","slug":"maltese-falcon-by-dashiell-hammett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2005\/04\/maltese-falcon-by-dashiell-hammett.html","title":{"rendered":"The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m signed up for a BNU class on <a style=\"text-decoration: none\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679722645\/tradgirl\" target='new'>The Maltese Falcon<\/a> this month but it hardly seems worth it.  It&#8217;s a detective story of a particular genre and that&#8217;s about it.  It&#8217;s not even a great detective story and I personally find this genre tiring and unappealing.  How this makes it to the 100 Best list I really can&#8217;t understand.  Pretty much anything Agatha Christie or Ed McBain ever wrote is better than this.  Oh well, maybe if I go peak in on the class I&#8217;ll understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m signed up for a BNU class on The Maltese Falcon this month but it hardly seems worth it. It&#8217;s a detective story of a particular genre and that&#8217;s about it. It&#8217;s not even a great detective story and I personally find this genre tiring and unappealing. How this makes it to the 100 Best [&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-66","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\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}