{"id":1072,"date":"2005-04-06T22:54:15","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T22:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/04\/in_the_company\/"},"modified":"2005-04-06T22:54:15","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T22:54:15","slug":"in_the_company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/in_the_company\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/034911742X\">The latest<\/a> in the Alexander McCall Smith series of &#8220;detective&#8221; stories set in Botswana is more of the same &#8211; no more, no less.<br \/>\nTo be honest, I&#8217;m practically reading these on autopilot now. I&#8217;d say that this took me no more than 3 or 4 return journies to work to get through. It&#8217;s perfectly adequare and I daresay I&#8217;ll carry on reading these while McCall Smith continues to publish them, but I don&#8217;t know that they&#8217;re exactly stretching me. But I&#8217;ll leave the stretching to other authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>034911742X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}