{"id":1697,"date":"2019-10-07T11:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T10:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2019-10-08T16:46:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:46:56","slug":"review-the-second-sleep-by-robert-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-second-sleep-by-robert-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Second Sleep, by Robert Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Robert Harris often has the very best ideas for his books, but sometimes the book itself is a real let-down.  The Second Sleep is an example of this.  First of all, his good idea &#8212; the big reveal &#8212; comes very early in the book.  What seems at first to be a tale set in Medieval England turns out to be set 800 years in the future &#8212; as we quickly learn when an Apple iPhone turns up unexpectedly.  And that&#8217;s basically it.  Nothing else very interesting happens.  The book builds up to the digging out of an ancient buried chamber to reveal &#8212; well, let&#8217;s just say that it is one of the most unsatisfying endings I&#8217;ve read in a recent book.  Not recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Harris often has the very best ideas for his books, but sometimes the book itself is a real let-down. The Second Sleep is an example of this. First of all, his good idea &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","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=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}