{"id":1236,"date":"2014-06-28T14:17:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T18:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2014-06-28T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T18:17:47","slug":"book-review-state-of-the-union-by-brad-thor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  State of the Union by Brad Thor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/206195.State_of_the_Union\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1388522074m\/206195.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"State of the Union (Scot Harvath, #3)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/206195.State_of_the_Union\">State of the Union<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/5088.Brad_Thor\">Brad Thor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/980281731\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the third in a series of books revolving around Scot Harvath, former Secret Service agent and now focusing on counterterrorism. You learn a few more details about Scot&#8217;s personal life and his upbringing in this book, but the motivations and desires of the main characters are secondary to the plot. Once again, Brad Thor has produced a fast-paced and gripping novel with rogue Russians as the primary threat. There is plenty of violence and action in the book, and the plot is realistic and well-written.<br \/>\nThose interested in the thriller genre (and an easy beach read) could do much worse than reach for this book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of the Union by Brad Thor My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the third in a series of books revolving around Scot Harvath, former Secret Service agent and now focusing on counterterrorism. You learn a few more details about Scot&#8217;s personal life and his upbringing in this book, but the motivations and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[336,194,195],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-brad-thor","tag-state-of-the-union"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-jW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}