{"id":882,"date":"2024-04-17T18:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T01:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=882"},"modified":"2024-04-17T18:08:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T01:08:48","slug":"mean-spirited-by-nick-roberts-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2024\/04\/17\/mean-spirited-by-nick-roberts-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Mean Spirited, by Nick Roberts \u2013 5\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This was my first read by Nick Roberts<\/a>, and boy was it good. From the opening sequence in the prologue, it had the hairs on the back of my neck standing straight up. And that happened several times during the story. You learn really quick, once them lights dim, shit\u2019s going down \u2013 and fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A story about Matt Matheny, a teacher, who through a random series of events takes on the responsibility of caring for the dog of a former student of his who has died. But is it just a dog? Or is something more? You\u2019ll have a hard time putting this book down to get your answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My favorite quote: \u201cThe lady with the two-thousand-dollar designer dog is quoting me on the virtues of animal rescue.\u201d Golden. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was my first read by Nick Roberts, and boy was it good. From the opening sequence in the prologue, it had the hairs on the back of my neck standing straight up. And that happened several times during the story. You learn really quick, once them lights dim, shit\u2019s going down \u2013 and fast. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[312,467,468,161],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-book","tag-mean-spirited","tag-nick-roberts","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_1942-1-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}