{"id":2267,"date":"2021-06-28T15:54:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T14:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2021-06-28T15:54:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T14:54:53","slug":"review-a-meal-in-winter-by-hubert-mingarelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-a-meal-in-winter-by-hubert-mingarelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: A Meal in Winter,  by Hubert Mingarelli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three German soldiers &#8212; all middle-aged reservists &#8212; set out from their base in occupied Poland during the Second World War.  Their job is to capture a Jew, any Jew, and return him to their base to be shot.  It is a job they have asked for, as the alternative is to stay at the base and shoot Jews who have been rounded up by others.  They manage to find a young Jewish man in hiding.  And then they have a meal.  That is the entire book &#8212; and it is magnificent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mingarelli is a master of short fiction about men in wartime (judging by the two books of his I have already read).  These are quiet books, thoughtful ones, and they tell deeply sad stories.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three German soldiers &#8212; all middle-aged reservists &#8212; set out from their base in occupied Poland during the Second World War. Their job is to capture a Jew, any Jew, and return him to their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267","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\/2267","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=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}