{"id":7532,"date":"2015-01-25T13:14:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T21:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=7532"},"modified":"2015-01-21T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:52:28","slug":"point-of-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2015\/01\/point-of-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Point of Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.goatley.com\/lights-out\/authors\/hunter\/point_20_pb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright\" width=250 \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is that any good?&#8221; I asked my fellow traveler holding <em>Sniper&#8217;s Honor<\/em>.  I always favor books reviewed by an actual reader, instead of professional critic.  &#8220;It&#8217;s a good travel book,&#8221; he said and I understood perfect.  &#8220;It is a series and a movie was made from one of them.&#8221;  Hmm&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>It was <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0822854\/\">Shooter<\/a><\/em>, a movie by Mark Wahlberg that I enjoyed.  Generally, a good movie leads to better reading experience.  But vice is not versa.  So I got the first of the <em>Bob Lee Swagger series: Point of Impact<\/em> by Stephen Hunter.  The book was published in 1993 and movie made 2007.<\/p>\n<p>As I read, scenes from the movie flashed back in my mind and that was quite fascinating.  I noticed the adaptations and actually appreciated them.  Like always, the book gave depth, contexts, and richness.  The movies the faces, feelings, and emotions.<\/p>\n<p>As the first of a series, this book ended cleanly.  I wonder if the rest of the series is equally good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Is that any good?&#8221; I asked my fellow traveler holding Sniper&#8217;s Honor. I always favor books reviewed by an actual reader, instead of professional critic. &#8220;It&#8217;s a good travel book,&#8221; he said and I understood perfect. &#8220;It is a series &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2015\/01\/point-of-impact\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[634,636,635],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7532"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7532"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7540,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7532\/revisions\/7540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}