{"id":2464,"date":"2014-10-20T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2014-10-20T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:14:09","slug":"fallen-angels-by-walter-dean-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2464","title":{"rendered":"fallen angels by walter dean myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2014\/04\/28\/germline-by\/#.VEUyvZPF_5k\">reviewed<\/a> {{Germline}} by {{T C McCarthy}}, I mentioned it reminded me of a scifi-ified version of a book I&#8217;d read years ago about the {{Vietnam War}}.<\/p>\n<p>I came across that book today, and it is entitled &#8220;&#8221;{{Fallen Angels}}&#8221; by {{Walter Dean Myers}} (which, ftr, I only bought in the first place because he had my last name).<\/p>\n<p>I would heartily\u00a0<em><strong>NOT<\/strong><\/em> recommend you read it if you are at all offended by foul language, as it is rife with it. But it is also a gritty story told from the perspective of someone who was living it every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I reviewed {{Germline}} by {{T C McCarthy}}, I mentioned it reminded me of a scifi-ified version of a book I&#8217;d read years ago about the {{Vietnam War}}. I came across that book today, and it is entitled &#8220;&#8221;{{Fallen Angels}}&#8221; by {{Walter Dean Myers}} (which, ftr, I only bought in the first place because he &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2464\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">fallen angels by walter dean myers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[815,833],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-vietnam","tag-war"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}