{"id":10091,"date":"2005-12-21T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T14:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/12\/21\/10091.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:53:46","slug":"book-report-the-case-of-the-ca-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/12\/21\/book-report-the-case-of-the-ca-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Case of the Careless Cupid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iblist.com\/book19689.htm\">The Case of the Careless Cupid<\/a> may be one of the last Erle Stanley Gardner books, but not so&#8217;s you&#8217;d notice. I mean, it doesn&#8217;t show signs of being a rote paint-by-numbers drag through the Perry Mason formula. Well, no more than the other few I&#8217;ve read. Which means not much at all. Mr. Gardner is digging on the formula, rather than leaning on it.\n<p>The only problem with this one (and it&#8217;s a ton of fun) is a lengthy disquisition on the lie detector, which is crap, which is all right, but is also dull, which isn&#8217;t all right. Oh, and there weren&#8217;t any guns in this one, so Perry didn&#8217;t get to do his gun-juggling tricks, but there was evidence to be tampered with, so <I>that&#8217;s<\/I> all right.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Case of the Careless Cupid may be one of the last Erle Stanley Gardner books, but not so\u2019s you\u2019d notice. I mean, it doesn\u2019t show signs of being a rote paint-by-numbers drag through the Perry Mason formula. Well, no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17633,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions\/17633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}