{"id":1454,"date":"2011-10-09T20:37:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T03:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2011-10-09T20:37:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T03:37:01","slug":"the-last-mile-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2011\/10\/the-last-mile-of-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Mile of the book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kindle says in 72% done with A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m ready to throw it out the window. I am almost certain that this 5th book in the series is not going to pay back the effort I&#8217;ve invested in it. I am almost sure the author is not going to make good on all the stories he began to tell.<\/p>\n<p>SOME authors do. Dickens was famous for it.<\/p>\n<p>But George R.R. Martin is no Dickens.<\/p>\n<p>I may be wrong. I&#8217;ve been wrong before. But I am only finishing this book of duty now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindle says in 72% done with A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire. I&#8217;m ready to throw it out the window. I am almost certain that this 5th book in the series is not going to pay &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2011\/10\/the-last-mile-of-the-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}