{"id":1074,"date":"2011-03-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:02:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:02:11","slug":"damage-by-john-lescroart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Damage by John Lescroart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/damage-john-lescroart.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/damage-john-lescroart.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Damage&#8221; is a San Francisco based detective novel by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnlescroart.com\/books.php\">John Lescroart<\/a>. It features newly elected District Attorney, former defense attorney, Wes Farrell, and Abe Glitsky. Farrell doesn&#8217;t even get his&nbsp;furniture&nbsp;in his office when he has to deal with a crime spree spread by the son of a rich and &nbsp;powerful San Francisco newspaper family who it happened were big contributors to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell has his hands full trying to deal with the situation while dealing with complicated San Franciso politics.<\/p>\n<p>I found the political angle to be quite distracting while reading the book and never quite got into it. What kept me going though was uncertainties about who the bad guys really are and even then, did the bad guys do all the bad stuff? Maybe not?<\/p>\n<p>I give the book 2.5 stars out of five. I mean it is worth reading but I&#8217;m glad I got it at the library instead of downloading on the Kindle. I&#8217;m intrigued enough though that I&#8217;ll be looking for more Lescroart books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Damage&#8221; is a San Francisco based detective novel by John Lescroart. It features newly elected District Attorney, former defense attorney, Wes Farrell, and Abe Glitsky. Farrell doesn&#8217;t even get his&nbsp;furniture&nbsp;in his office when he has to deal with a crime spree spread by the son of a rich and &nbsp;powerful San Francisco newspaper family who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}