{"id":10569,"date":"2007-07-23T10:11:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T14:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/07\/23\/10569.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:54","slug":"book-report-hot-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/07\/23\/book-report-hot-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Hot Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/titles\/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Title&amp;BookID=370010\">Hot Money<\/a> is the inheritance one. It&#8217;s one of my favorites, although I&#8217;m not sure why. There&#8217;s no romance at all, and although our hero does get a bit roughed up a bit, he doesn&#8217;t show the kind of perseverance through physical pain that typifies the Dick Francis hero. It does have a very good mystery-novel trick, where the titular money is essentially a McGuffin. Everybody assumes all along that the murderer must be after the money, when it turns out to be something else entirely. And, of course, it&#8217;s the troubles of foolish rich people, which is always good for an escape.\n<p>Is it possible that <I>Hot Money<\/I> is out of print in the US? Neither Penguin nor Random House have a web page for it. I don&#8217;t really know what the rights situation is with his back catalogue, but I would figure that a publisher could turn a profit on keeping just about <I>any<\/I> Dick Francis novel in print. Ah, well.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Money is the inheritance one. It\u2019s one of my favorites, although I\u2019m not sure why. There\u2019s no romance at all, and although our hero does get a bit roughed up a bit, he doesn\u2019t show the kind of perseverance&#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-10569","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\/10569","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=10569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18067,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions\/18067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}