{"id":1117,"date":"2011-05-30T20:21:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T04:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2011-05-30T20:21:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T04:21:19","slug":"review-stormy-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"Review: Stormy Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Stormy Weather<\/em> is a good deal of fun, but there are no surprises in here for a Carl Hiaasen fan.\u00a0 That is not to say that the plot is predictable or that the characters are uninteresting.\u00a0 They are Hiaasen characters: quirky without being outlandish, rougish without being trite.\u00a0 Everyone is acting as people &#8211; sometimes bad people &#8211; will and Hiaasen hands out just desserts by the end.<\/p>\n<p>The setting for this outing is the mid 1990&#8217;s immediately following one of the big hurricanes that devastated South Florida.\u00a0 Hiaasen is less interested in the power of nature than the gang of opportunists and petty crooks that the event brings out of the woodwork.\u00a0 He&#8217;s also interested in the forces of justice, such as they are, in the guise of his recurring ex-Florida Givernor turned unlikely vigilante\u00a0 and some other folks he recruits.<\/p>\n<p>The setting was a little jarring &#8211; it&#8217;s surprising how much has changed in 15 years &#8211; but a well preserved slice of the time.\u00a0 And people are the same.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stormy Weather is a good deal of fun, but there are no surprises in here for a Carl Hiaasen fan.\u00a0 That is not to say that the plot is predictable or that the characters are uninteresting.\u00a0 They are Hiaasen characters: quirky without being outlandish, rougish without being trite.\u00a0 Everyone is acting as people &#8211; sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}