{"id":560,"date":"2001-03-18T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-18T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=560"},"modified":"2001-03-18T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2001-03-18T11:12:00","slug":"my-new-book-freshly-purchased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2001\/03\/18\/my-new-book-freshly-purchased\/","title":{"rendered":"My new book, freshly purchased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new book, freshly purchased this morning, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1852427337\/qid=984917775\/sr=1-7\/202-2790803-8438266\"><i>Blue Light<\/i><\/a> by Walter Mosley. Here&#8217;s the cover blurb:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">In San Francisco in the mid 1960s, a cosmic blue light strikes people in its path, quickening their DNA, and greatly enhancing their strengths and understanding. They become the Blues, powerful yet vulnerable. And <i>Blue Light<\/i> is their story.<br \/>\nNarrated by Chance, a half-black, half-white follower of the Blues, the novel traces their desperate conflict with one of their own, a man who &#8211; struck by the light at the moment he died &#8211; has become the living embodiment of death.<br \/>\n<i>Blue Light<\/i> refracts questions of identity, race and humanity &#8211; hallmarks of Walter Mosley&#8217;s writing &#8211; through a gripping adventure that puts a dazzling new spin on the relationship between the past, present and future.<\/div>\n<p>I will, as usual, report back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new book, freshly purchased this morning, is Blue Light by Walter Mosley. Here&#8217;s the cover blurb: In San Francisco in the mid 1960s, a cosmic blue light strikes people in its path, quickening their DNA, and greatly enhancing their strengths and understanding. They become the Blues, powerful yet vulnerable. And Blue Light is their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}