{"id":2050,"date":"2020-10-24T15:44:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T14:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2020-10-24T15:44:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T14:44:49","slug":"review-the-all-true-adventures-and-rare-education-of-the-daredevil-daniel-bones-by-owen-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-all-true-adventures-and-rare-education-of-the-daredevil-daniel-bones-by-owen-booth\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The All True Adventures and Rare Education of the Daredevil Daniel Bones, by Owen Booth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First of all, this is a terrific book.  It is, in one sense, a coming-of-age story, but it is so much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the heart of the story is the eponymous Daniel whose life changes utterly when Captain Clarke B appears on the scene.  The story is set in the late 1880s, beginning in a poor sea-side community in Essex but taking Daniel together with Clarke on a tour of Europe where he has &#8230; adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The character of the Cap, as Daniel grows to call him, is unforgettable.  Daniel&#8217;s relationship with his younger brother, who he is forced to leave behind, is deeply moving.  So is Daniel&#8217;s relationship with a young Italian man, Andrea.  Many other characters drift in and out of the story &#8212; in some cases with sudden violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is story-telling at its best, and reminds me &#8212; and I say this with some hesitation &#8212; of Mark Twain at his best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, this is a terrific book. It is, in one sense, a coming-of-age story, but it is so much more. At the heart of the story is the eponymous Daniel whose life changes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2050","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\/2050","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=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}