{"id":1784,"date":"2020-01-16T14:58:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T13:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2020-01-16T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T13:58:48","slug":"review-talking-to-strangers-by-malcolm-gladwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-talking-to-strangers-by-malcolm-gladwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think I read a negative review of this book somewhere.  And for that reason, I delayed buying it.   Which is odd because I think I&#8217;ve read &#8212; and really enjoyed &#8212; all his other books. But now having completed the book in two days, I can safely say the Malcolm Gladwell has done it again.  He may not always be right, but he is always interesting, and he writes so damn well.  I love the way he tells a story, introduces a character, and returns to it again and again.  By the end of the book, one knows the story so well, and it is so convincing &#8212; and well, I think every writer wishes they could write this well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I read a negative review of this book somewhere. And for that reason, I delayed buying it. Which is odd because I think I&#8217;ve read &#8212; and really enjoyed &#8212; all his other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","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=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}