{"id":8155,"date":"2016-04-27T23:03:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T06:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=8155"},"modified":"2016-04-27T23:03:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T06:03:56","slug":"time-to-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2016\/04\/time-to-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.goatley.com\/lights-out\/authors\/hunter\/time_10_hc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=250 class=\"alignright\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed &#8220;<em>Point of Impact<\/em>&#8221; which was the base for the movie <em>Shooter<\/em>.  So I read the next one in the series: <em>Black Light<\/em>.  It was OK and I grew a bit tired of Bob Lee Swagger. As I had a trip coming, I picked up this one to kill the air time.<\/p>\n<p>Why was the book talk about Donny Fenn so much?  I double checked to make sure that I was reading the right book.  Was Stephen Hunter creating a side plot?  I dug hard to remember the details from <em>Point of Impact<\/em> and <em>Black Light<\/em>.  I prowled on and was well rewarded.  Wow!  That made the plot span several decades.  This is quite epic.<\/p>\n<p>This book brought depth to Bob Lee Swagger, no longer just the best sniper who solved all problems by shooting. I now want to read the next one: <em>The 47th Samurai<\/em>, at least it has an interesting title.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, there are 8 books ahead of that in my queue.  Oh well, that&#8217;s OK.  The book is not going anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed &#8220;Point of Impact&#8221; which was the base for the movie Shooter. So I read the next one in the series: Black Light. It was OK and I grew a bit tired of Bob Lee Swagger. As I had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2016\/04\/time-to-hunt\/\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155"}],"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=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8167,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions\/8167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}