{"id":918,"date":"2004-11-18T19:07:56","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/11\/a_small_death_i\/"},"modified":"2004-11-18T19:07:56","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T19:07:56","slug":"a_small_death_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/a_small_death_i\/","title":{"rendered":"A Small Death in Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/000651202X\">This is a book<\/A> that I read in fits and starts. Sometimes it really gripped me and I read page after page, but at other times it left me a little cold, and I didn&#8217;t care enough about the characters.<br \/>\nWe get the dual stories of present day Lisbon, where a young girl is found dead on a beach, and the goings on during the second world war when a young German businessman is giving the task of exporting a substance called <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wolfram\">wolfram<\/A> (more commonly known as tungsten), vital for tanks, back to the motherland.<br \/>\nObviously their stories meet. The book has plenty of twists and turns, but somehow I just wasn&#8217;t completely taken with the characters. Not bad, but not enormously special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>000651202X<\/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-918","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\/918","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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}