{"id":1246,"date":"2017-07-17T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T11:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2017-07-17T12:55:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T11:55:48","slug":"the-painted-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"The Painted Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2017\/07\/IMG_2508.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1249\" src=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2017\/07\/IMG_2508.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2017\/07\/IMG_2508.png 396w, http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2017\/07\/IMG_2508-198x300.png 198w, http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2017\/07\/IMG_2508-260x394.png 260w, http:\/\/media3.wood.nu\/2017\/07\/IMG_2508-160x242.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was fortunate enough to win an Advanced Reader&#8217;s Edition of the final Amelia Peabody book, completed after the death of Eluzabeth Peters\/Barbara Mertz by Joan Hess. The book is a worthy addition to the Peabody saga. In the beginning I thought the dialog was bit off, words the Peabody-Emersons would have used, but a little off tone. But that feeling soon vanished as I got caught up in the story of how the Nefertiti head &#8220;really&#8221; got found, against the back story of a series of assassins bent on doing away with Amelia and a couple of deus ex machina appearances by the &#8220;Master Criminal&#8221; Sethos.<\/p>\n<p>Terribly sad the whole ride is over, but very pleased we got one last adventure. And one should go back (or forward) and read &#8220;Tomb of the Golden Bird&#8221; to see Amelia off properly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062083517\/the-painted-queen\">https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062083517\/the-painted-queen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I was fortunate enough to win an Advanced Reader&#8217;s Edition of the final Amelia Peabody book, completed after the death of Eluzabeth Peters\/Barbara Mertz by Joan Hess. The book is a worthy addition to the Peabody saga. In the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=1246\">Read more &rarr;<\/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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[253],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3AzSx-k6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}