{"id":627,"date":"2003-05-10T20:05:23","date_gmt":"2003-05-10T20:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-627.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","slug":"george-p-pelecanos-hell-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/05\/10\/george-p-pelecanos-hell-to-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"George P. Pelecanos &#8211; <i>Hell To Pay<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Strange and Terry Quinn deal with racism, poverty, prostitution, drugs and murder, as well as their own personal relationship and anger management issues.  It&#8217;s a gritty, downbeat novel that makes many important points about many important issues.  It&#8217;s also rather slow and dull.  The pace doesn&#8217;t pick up until the last 50 pages or so, but by then it&#8217;s too late to salvage a decent crime story from the overbearing worthiness of the book&#8217;s central themes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Strange and Terry Quinn deal with racism, poverty, prostitution, drugs and murder, as well as their own personal relationship and anger management issues. It&#8217;s a gritty, downbeat novel that makes many important points about many important issues. It&#8217;s also rather slow and dull. The pace doesn&#8217;t pick up until the last 50 pages or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_25_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}