{"id":7427,"date":"2013-12-31T00:55:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T00:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2013-12-31T00:55:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T00:55:20","slug":"11-22-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/11-22-63\/","title":{"rendered":"11.22.63"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=thewidblo-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=1444727338\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" align=\"right\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>I got Stephen King&#8217;s  <i>11.22.63<\/i> for Christmas, and I just finished reading it last night.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s basically about a teacher who gets a chance to go back in time and save JFK&#8217;s life.  It appears to be well researched and it&#8217;s quite a page-turner (although I think the ending is weaker than the rest of the book).<\/p>\n<p>My only real criticism is that the main protagonist (born around 1975) seems to be a little bit too comfortable with life around 1960.  Could it be that Stephen King forgot that 1960 isn&#8217;t a sweet childhood memory for a child of the seventies in the same way as it is for a baby-boomer like himself?  I definitely would be much less worried about trying to fit in around 1980 or 1990, because of have memories of that time.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s well worth a read, even if you aren&#8217;t particularly interested in Lee Harvey Oswald and John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got Stephen King&#8217;s 11.22.63 for Christmas, and I just finished reading it last night. It&#8217;s basically about a teacher who gets a chance to go back in time and save JFK&#8217;s life. It appears to be well researched and it&#8217;s quite a page-turner (although I think the ending is weaker than the rest of the book). My only real criticism is that the main protagonist (born around 1975) seems to be a little bit too comfortable with life around 1960. Could it be that Stephen King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}