{"id":1519,"date":"2010-01-02T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:10:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:10:18","slug":"london-boulevard-by-ken-bruen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"London Boulevard by Ken Bruen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/london-boulevard.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/london-boulevard-196x300.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I just got through reading London Boulevard by Ken Bruen. I started today about &nbsp;2PM and finished at about 10:30 tonight. Its only 250 pages but I just couldn&#8217;t stop reading it.<\/p>\n<p>It is a retelling of &nbsp;the movie Sunset Boulevard but amped up, made more explicit, set in modern day London and given a few twists. The protagonist is not a movie writer, he is Mitchell, a small time but dangerous criminal just out of prison after a three year term of aggravated assault. The older lady is not Nora Desmond but Lillian Palmer a former star of the stage who has been waiting for the right vehicle for her return to stardom. She is tended to by her loyal butler Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>I found the book to be fantastic and give it a rare four stars out of four. I&#8217;ll be checking out more of Ken Bruen&#8217;s books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got through reading London Boulevard by Ken Bruen. I started today about &nbsp;2PM and finished at about 10:30 tonight. Its only 250 pages but I just couldn&#8217;t stop reading it. It is a retelling of &nbsp;the movie Sunset Boulevard but amped up, made more explicit, set in modern day London and given a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7597,"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-1519","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\/1519"}],"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=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}