{"id":924,"date":"2016-12-26T08:23:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T06:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=924"},"modified":"2016-12-26T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T06:23:50","slug":"mother-jones-20-notable-reads-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2016\/12\/26\/mother-jones-20-notable-reads-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Jones: 20 Notable Reads of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mother Jones\u00a0<\/em>includes &#8220;Pumpkinflowers&#8221; on its year-end list of 20 recommended books, describing it like this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a 21st-century war story, with all of the IEDs, propaganda videos, jihadi groups we&#8217;re accustomed to\u2014but one told in the restrained, introspective style of the World War I writers Friedman turned to for inspiration. It&#8217;s partly an engrossing personal story, partly a history of a forgotten chapter in Middle East conflict, and one of the best-written books I&#8217;ve read in years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The full list is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/media\/2016\/11\/notable-best-books-2016\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Jones\u00a0includes &#8220;Pumpkinflowers&#8221; on its year-end list of 20 recommended books, describing it like this: &#8220;This is a 21st-century war story, with all of the IEDs, propaganda videos, jihadi groups we&#8217;re accustomed to\u2014but one told in the restrained, introspective style of the World War I writers Friedman turned to for inspiration. It&#8217;s partly an engrossing personal story, partly a history &#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\/924"}],"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=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}