{"id":742,"date":"2016-08-30T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2022-04-25T10:15:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T16:15:44","slug":"booklist-this-ordinary-soldier-is-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/booklist-this-ordinary-soldier-is-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"Booklist: &#8220;This ordinary soldier is universal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With <em>The Enlisted Men&#8217;s Club<\/em>, published in 2014, Running Meter launched Reilly?s Vietnam trilogy, which introduces the self-absorbed Private Palmer, formerly a slacker civilian who works hard to become a slacker MP at the Presidio as he awaits his orders for Vietnam. Palmer is a practiced, lonely drinker clearly on his way to alcoholism, and he frequently announces that he cares only for his own survival.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read John Mort&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Enlisted-Men-s-Club-Gary-Reilly\/pid=8209584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full review<\/a> of <em>The Enlisted Men&#8217;s Club<\/em>  on Booklist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With The Enlisted Men&#8217;s Club, published in 2014, Running Meter launched Reilly?s Vietnam trilogy, which introduces the self-absorbed Private Palmer, formerly a slacker civilian who works hard to become a slacker MP at the Presidio as he awaits his orders for Vietnam. Palmer is a practiced, lonely drinker clearly on his way to alcoholism, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":521,"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\/742"}],"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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}