{"id":918,"date":"2016-12-16T12:20:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T10:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2016-12-16T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T10:22:45","slug":"national-post-top-99-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2016\/12\/16\/national-post-top-99-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"National Post Top 99 of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s\u00a0<em>National Post<\/em>\u00a0has chosen &#8220;Pumpkinflowers&#8221; as one of the top 99 books of 2016. The editors write:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Friedman recounts a small group of soldiers\u2019 defence of a single hill in Lebanon as a microcosm for regional conflict and many asymmetrical conflicts worldwide. Friedman, one of those young soldiers, has gone on to become one of our most impressive narrative nonfiction writers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The full list is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/arts\/books\/the-complete-np99-the-best-books-of-2016-ranked\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s\u00a0National Post\u00a0has chosen &#8220;Pumpkinflowers&#8221; as one of the top 99 books of 2016. The editors write: &#8220;Friedman recounts a small group of soldiers\u2019 defence of a single hill in Lebanon as a microcosm for regional conflict and many asymmetrical conflicts worldwide. Friedman, one of those young soldiers, has gone on to become one of our most impressive narrative nonfiction writers.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}