{"id":8373,"date":"2015-07-05T10:53:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T16:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8373"},"modified":"2015-07-05T05:51:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T11:51:35","slug":"book-16-of-52-the-presidents-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/book-16-of-52-the-presidents-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 16 (of 52) &#8211; The President&#8217;s Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8375\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Meltzer_ThePresidentsShadowHC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8375\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Meltzer_ThePresidentsShadowHC.jpg\" alt=\"The President's Shadow - Brad Meltzer\" width=\"240\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Meltzer_ThePresidentsShadowHC.jpg 240w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Meltzer_ThePresidentsShadowHC-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The President&#8217;s Shadow &#8211; Brad Meltzer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After a 2 year hiatus, Brad Meltzer returns with the latest installment of his Culper Ring series. \u00a0In this installment, archivist Beecher White tries to find out the truth about his father&#8217;s death while working to keep the president safe from an unknown assailant.<\/p>\n<p>Meltzer tweaks his formula of the little man going up against the Washington DC power structure, this time having Beecher more or less working with the government. \u00a0Similar to his last book, the one knock I have against this book is that it assumes that you have read\u00a0the previous entries in the series, with little in the way of proper introduction for returning characters.\u00a0 A perusal of the early reviews on Goodreads.com show that this was an issue for new readers.<\/p>\n<p>I assume the next book in the series will be coming out sometime in 2017. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 2 year hiatus, Brad Meltzer returns with the latest installment of his Culper Ring series. \u00a0In this installment, archivist Beecher White tries to find out the truth about his father&#8217;s death while working to keep the president safe from an unknown assailant. Meltzer tweaks his formula of the little man going up against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[710,2987,5722,5721],"class_list":["post-8373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-brad-meltzer","tag-culper-ring","tag-goodreads-com","tag-the-presidents-shadow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8384,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373\/revisions\/8384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}