{"id":2831,"date":"2020-06-04T17:17:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2020-06-06T17:37:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T17:37:17","slug":"book-log-4-the-cailiffs-of-baghdad-georgia-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2831","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #3: The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel<\/em> by Mary Helen Stefaniak [Kindle, $9.99]<\/p>\n<p>Loved this novel.  <\/p>\n<p>I came across it because I was taking an SAT practice test with my son, and one of the questions had an excerpt from this novel.  The excerpt was probably the most amusing bit of writing I&#8217;ve ever seen in a standardized test so I needed to get the rest of it.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some fun literary fugues going on in this book&#8230; a person tells a story about someone who then tells a story about someone who then tells a story and so on about 7 layers down.  And then, when you&#8217;ve finished the book, you can visit the Baghdad, Georgia website, and go one level <em>up<\/em> from the novel. There are <em>layers<\/em>, people. <\/p>\n<p>All in all, this is a rollicking, amusing, touching and well-written novel, probably my favorite this year.  <\/p>\n<p>I picked up the other couple works by Stefanick, and they did not disappoint either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel by Mary Helen Stefaniak [Kindle, $9.99] Loved this novel. I came across it because I was taking an SAT practice test with my son, and one of the questions had an excerpt from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2831\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[512,513,510],"tags":[520],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-books","category-kindle","tag-book-log-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}