{"id":735,"date":"2016-08-30T14:19:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2016-08-30T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:37:33","slug":"booklist-murph-is-a-fascinating-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/booklist-murph-is-a-fascinating-companion\/","title":{"rendered":"Booklist: Murph is &#8220;a fascinating companion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Unlike Reilly, whose pomp and bluster create chaos, Murph is a go-with-the-flow philosopher (comparisons to The Dude in The Big Lebowski seem somewhat inevitable), a man who wants to avoid people and will do almost anything to avoid confrontation, but whose internal monologue makes him a fascinating companion. Every few pages readers will find an unexpected turn of phrase, a running gag, or, for lack of a better way to put it, a funny way of looking at things. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read Keir Graff&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Asphalt-Warrior-Gary-Reilly\/pid=7953883\" target=\"_blank\">full review<\/a> of <em>The Asphalt Warrior<\/em> on Booklist<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Reilly, whose pomp and bluster create chaos, Murph is a go-with-the-flow philosopher (comparisons to The Dude in The Big Lebowski seem somewhat inevitable), a man who wants to avoid people and will do almost anything to avoid confrontation, but whose internal monologue makes him a fascinating companion. Every few pages readers will find an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}