{"id":1501,"date":"2015-02-16T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2015-02-16T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T11:15:18","slug":"arrivederci-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/2015\/02\/16\/arrivederci-roma\/","title":{"rendered":"ARRIVEDERCI ROMA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say that Rome wasn\u2019t built in a day and it certainly took me\u00a0many days to record the nine Falco novels of Lindsay Davis that are\u00a0set in Ancient Rome. On Friday 13th of February I completed the series.\u00a0The novels have a \u2018who-dun-it\u2019 element and some are pretty gory and graphic\u00a0but the main element that runs through the books is Davis\u2019 wry humor. Falco\u00a0(spy to Emperor Vespasian) is wonderfully entertaining company (he\u2019s the\u00a0\u2018narrator\u2019) and the supporting cast is made up for some delightful characters\u00a0like Helena, Falco\u2019s intelligent and beautiful girlfriend\/wife and Falco\u2019s<br \/>\nbatty, dysfunctional family. A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum?\u00a0You bet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that Rome wasn\u2019t built in a day and it certainly took me\u00a0many days to record the nine Falco novels of Lindsay Davis that are\u00a0set in Ancient Rome. On Friday 13th of February I completed the series.\u00a0The novels have a \u2018who-dun-it\u2019 element and some are pretty gory and graphic\u00a0but the main element that runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}