{"id":1693,"date":"2019-09-27T07:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T06:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2019-09-27T07:55:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T06:55:42","slug":"review-the-president-is-missing-by-bill-clinton-and-james-patterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-president-is-missing-by-bill-clinton-and-james-patterson\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The President is Missing, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">In the 1960&#8217;s there was a thriller called The President&#8217;s Plane is Missing by Robert J. Serling, the older brother of Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame.  As I remember it, the book wasn&#8217;t bad. This book by best-selling author James Patterson and former U.S. President Bill Clinton, on the other hand, is bad.  Not just bad.  It&#8217;s awful.  I won&#8217;t even begin to list all the terrible things about it &#8211; there are too many.  Why read it?  I was curious to know how Bill Clinton wanted to present himself (for the lead character is a thinly designed him).  This &#8216;fictional&#8217; president marries a brilliant law student (who dies before the book even starts), adores his daughter, was governor of a Southern state, and was a decorated war hero.  OK, maybe not all of those describe Clinton.  The book ends with a long &#8212; a very long &#8212; speech by the fictional president laying out his views on everything.  Tedious stuff.  This definitely wins the prize for the worst book I&#8217;ve read this century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1960&#8217;s there was a thriller called The President&#8217;s Plane is Missing by Robert J. Serling, the older brother of Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame. As I remember it, the book wasn&#8217;t bad&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}