{"id":9,"date":"2005-12-27T20:45:41","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T20:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akumaprime.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2014-09-30T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T21:50:00","slug":"american-gods-chapter-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"American Gods &#8211; Chapter 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaiman mentions Zelazny in his &#8220;For&#8221; section, which instantly gave me pause. Zelazny is one of my favorite authors. He can twist plots into knots in ways few others can. It was an omen, though I wasn&#8217;t sure if it was good or bad. Either this book will fail to live up to Zelazny&#8217;s legend, or exceed it.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter one starts off strong. I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m just ridiculously intelligent, or I have alot of experience dealing with mythological creatures, but I caught onto a few things I&#8217;m not sure I was supposed to just yet.  I don&#8217;t want to spoil anything, so I won&#8217;t say what, but talk to me after you&#8217;ve read it (by the way it&#8217;s because of my ridiculous intelligence that I HAVE alot of experience dealing with mythological creatures).<\/p>\n<p>The character development is strong, there is substance to the plot. It keeps me wanting to read and I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s going to happen next. Better get to chapter 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaiman mentions Zelazny in his &#8220;For&#8221; section, which instantly gave me pause. Zelazny is one of my favorite authors. He can twist plots into knots in ways few others can. It was an omen, though I wasn&#8217;t sure if it was good or bad. Either this book will fail to live up to Zelazny&#8217;s legend, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akumaprime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}