{"id":462,"date":"2003-10-20T11:40:45","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T11:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/10\/zanzibar\/"},"modified":"2003-10-20T11:40:45","modified_gmt":"2003-10-20T11:40:45","slug":"zanzibar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/zanzibar\/","title":{"rendered":"Zanzibar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0571205178\">this Giles Foden book<\/a> kicking around for a while now, and thought it was about time to read it. It&#8217;s set in, well, Zanzibar, with a backdrop around the embassey bombings in east Africa from a few years ago &#8211; particularly the one in Kenya.<br \/>\nI thoroughly enjoyed the book, with its attempt to try and get inside the heads of the members of Al-Qaeda who carry out the atrocities.<br \/>\nI suppose the one thing that you know is going to happen in this book is that at some point a bomb is going to go off. Yet when it does, it still surprises and the horror is well conveyed.<br \/>\nAll in all a thoroughly good book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0571205178<\/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-462","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\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}