{"id":1395,"date":"2013-09-22T20:45:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T00:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:39:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T18:39:57","slug":"review-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/15783514\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1351914778m\/15783514.jpg\" alt=\"The Ocean at the End of the Lane\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/15783514\">The Ocean at the End of the Lane<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1221698\">Neil Gaiman<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/709730417\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never had to set down a book because it was too unsettling.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\n<p>I had only put it down for a day, and plowed through it after that. The story was disturbing, amazing, and thought-provoking. I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;d call it fun, though.<\/p>\n<p>The ending is sad, and left me a little despondent. I&#8217;d hoped that this time would be the time that something different happened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/709730417\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman My rating: 4 of 5 stars I&#8217;ve never had to set down a book because it was too unsettling. Until now. I had only put it down for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-mv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8096,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/8096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}