{"id":203,"date":"2003-03-31T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-31T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2003\/03\/31\/203\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:20:39","slug":"203","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2003\/03\/31\/203\/","title":{"rendered":"203"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacred Art of Stealing<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Brookmyre<\/p>\n<p>This is a highly entertaining crime novel written in Brookmyre&#8217;s usual acerbic style.<br \/>\nThe lead character in this novel in Angelique da Xavia, an officer in Strathclyde Police, who featured prominently in Brookmyre&#8217;s Last Novel &#8220;A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe best bit was the audacious Bank robbery near the start of the novel.  Not as good as &#8220;A Big Boy&#8230;&#8221; as it ran out of steam towards the end with some over telegraphed twists, but well worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacred Art of Stealing Christopher Brookmyre This is a highly entertaining crime novel written in Brookmyre&#8217;s usual acerbic style. The lead character in this novel in Angelique da Xavia, an officer in Strathclyde Police, who featured prominently in Brookmyre&#8217;s Last Novel &#8220;A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away&#8221;. The best bit was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}