{"id":36643,"date":"2024-09-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36643"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T17:42:33","slug":"36643","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36643","title":{"rendered":"LUSH AND OTHER TALES OF BOOZY MAYHEM by Duane Swierczynski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Z6z8U6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z091624zview_lush.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4gtbdV7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LUSH AND OTHER TALES OF BOOZY MAYHEM<\/a> by Duane Swierczynski<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I first met Hilly Palmer in a bar on 15th Street.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Duane Swierczynski presents 17 short stories.\u00a0 There&#8217;s not a bad one in the bunch.\u00a0 My favorites were&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hilly Palmer&#8217;s Last Case &#8211; A young wannabe writer tracks down a famous crime writer, and finds out that all stories don&#8217;t have a happy ending.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not All There &#8211; Sometimes bad things happen and you&#8217;re lucky it wasn&#8217;t worse.\u00a0 But if you&#8217;re really lucky, you&#8217;ll find someone that completes you.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eve of Destruction &#8211; A polish family curse is real&#8230; whether you believe it or not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>+++++<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve been a Duane Swierczynski fan since THE WHEEL MAN.\u00a0 He&#8217;s never let me down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUSH AND OTHER TALES OF BOOZY MAYHEM by Duane Swierczynski First sentence&#8230; I first met Hilly Palmer in a bar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36876,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36643\/revisions\/36876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}