{"id":100,"date":"2018-06-23T13:52:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T13:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/?p=100"},"modified":"2018-06-23T13:52:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T13:52:47","slug":"book-review-the-house-of-daniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/2018\/06\/23\/book-review-the-house-of-daniel\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The House of Daniel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/28246433-the-house-of-daniel\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The House of Daniel: A novel of wild magic, the great depression, and semipro ball\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1450554472m\/28246433.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/28246433-the-house-of-daniel\">The House of Daniel: A novel of wild magic, the great depression, and semipro ball<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/29479.Harry_Turtledove\">Harry Turtledove<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2402414119\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The House of Daniel was an amazing book about baseball, the Great Depression and some elements of fantasy. It gave an interesting view of the western US in the 1920&#8217;s. I will say, if you don&#8217;t enjoy baseball, it probably won&#8217;t be your cup of tea. However, the front cover should be enough of a clue for that to be obvious. As usual, Turtledove builds some interesting characters and a brilliant story that drew me in and didn&#8217;t let go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/46146358-justin-gonsalves\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Daniel: A novel of wild magic, the great depression, and semipro ball by Harry Turtledove My rating: 5 of 5 stars The House of Daniel was an amazing book about baseball, the Great Depression and some elements of fantasy. It gave an interesting view of the western US in the 1920&#8217;s. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/2018\/06\/23\/book-review-the-house-of-daniel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Review: The House of Daniel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,37,36,38,40,41],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-book-review","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-fictional","tag-great-depression"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7wlZw-1C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}