{"id":1247,"date":"2014-03-12T21:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T02:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:52:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T22:52:44","slug":"prelude-to-an-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/prelude-to-an-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Prelude to an Empire, by Terry J. Benton"},"content":{"rendered":false,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benton, Terry J. Prelude to an Empire. Create\/Space, 2012\/2014. $12.99. 350p. PB. 978-147834-960-0. The novel opens with Russell, the twenty-three-year-old protagonist, in his car preparing to kill himself. He&#8217;s received bad news from the doctor and wonders to himself, &#8220;how the hell did I get to this point?&#8221; Russell got to this point by surviving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1190,"featured_media":2595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}