{"id":29,"date":"2009-01-09T03:16:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T03:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angiewindheim.wordpress.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2009-01-09T03:16:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T03:16:35","slug":"american-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"American Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books are like food. Some kinds fill you up and stick with you for a while. Others are empty calories that leave you feeling like you didn&#8217;t really read anything at all. <em>American Gods,<\/em>\u00a0by Neil Gaiman, is all slow-burning protein. \u00a0This book had me thinking the whole time. I had read <em>Stardust<\/em>. also by Gaiman. It&#8217;s light and fun &#8212; an adult, bedtime story. \u00a0<em>American Gods <\/em>is riveting. The ideas,\u00a0depth and detail are amazing. \u00a0The story follows Shadow, a recently released convict who goes home to find his wife is not-quite dead or alive, and his best job offer is as a sidekick for an old world <em>god<\/em> named Wednesday. Shadow is thrown in the middle of a war between those old world gods and the new world gods (like Media and Digital) that we &#8220;worship today.&#8221; Did I mention that these gods walk amongst people like you and me? A major bonus is the way Gaiman throws in a lot of fascinating old world myths\/fables\/folklore to chew on. It&#8217;s entertaining and thought provoking and definitely not a book for &#8220;carb&#8221; lovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books are like food. Some kinds fill you up and stick with you for a while. Others are empty calories that leave you feeling like you didn&#8217;t really read anything at all. American Gods,\u00a0by Neil Gaiman, is all slow-burning protein. \u00a0This book had me thinking the whole time. I had read Stardust. also by Gaiman. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}