{"id":817,"date":"2008-07-24T02:42:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T09:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/?p=817"},"modified":"2013-02-23T04:14:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T04:14:47","slug":"duma-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2008\/07\/24\/duma-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Duma Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the first to admit that I&#8217;m not very good at this sort of thing &#8212; whatever you want to call it.  Reviewing a book.  I&#8217;m not good at movies, either.  I tend to over-explain one thing, but leave out something important until later.  And I usually spoil the entire thing.<\/p>\n<p>Which might be why I&#8217;ve put off that thing Gremlin asked me to do for his books.  I&#8217;m not very good at it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFortunately, <i>Duma Key<\/i> kinda takes care of itself in that way.  It explains itself, without explaining itself.  Right on page 237 of the hardcover, end of the second paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The water runs faster now. Soon come the rapids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t make sense now, and it might not even make sense to some of the people who&#8217;ve read the book, but that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the first to admit that I&#8217;m not very good at this sort of thing &#8212; whatever you want to call it. Reviewing a book. I&#8217;m not good at movies, either. I tend to over-explain one thing, but leave out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2008\/07\/24\/duma-key\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,161],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-books","tag-stephen-king"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-db","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}