{"id":13760,"date":"2014-09-05T09:34:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13760"},"modified":"2014-09-05T09:34:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:34:16","slug":"the-hardest-working-book-reporter-in-the-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/05\/the-hardest-working-book-reporter-in-the-business\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hardest Working Book Reporter In The Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know who reads and reports on more books than I do?  <a href=\"http:\/\/friarsfires.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Friar<\/a>, that&#8217;s who.<\/p>\n<p>Today, he does a book report on <a href=\"http:\/\/friarsfires.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/early-on.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert B. Parker&#8217;s <em>Early Autumn<\/em> (and <em>The Hunt for Red October<\/em>)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I read <em>Early Autumn<\/em> back when I checked the paperback out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.24thstate.com\/2011\/05\/what-taney-county-might-lose.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jefferson County Community Library<\/a>.  It was in the days of belonging to a broken home with no father, and it impacted me a lot.  I was so heavily influenced by the self-definition portions of the book that I gave copies out to other shiftless, adrift twenty-somethings when I was in college.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been quite a number of years since I&#8217;ve gone back through Parker&#8217;s early work; back around the turn of the century, I ran through the books to that point.  It was far easier then, as there were fewer books in the oeuvre.  Also, the average quality wasn&#8217;t diluted by the 21st century work.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll stick to reading Friar&#8217;s book reports about Parker&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know who reads and reports on more books than I do? Friar, that&#8217;s who. Today, he does a book report on Robert B. Parker&#8217;s Early Autumn (and The Hunt for Red October). I read Early Autumn back when I checked the paperback out of the Jefferson County Community Library. It was in the days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13761,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13760\/revisions\/13761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}