{"id":3399,"date":"2026-02-15T19:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:46:21","slug":"review-fever-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3399","title":{"rendered":"Review: Fever Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I do like me some Carl Hiaasen.  <em>Fever Beach<\/em> is his usual chaotic and comedic send up of politics and people who annoy him.  This time he&#8217;s set his sights on right wing militia types and politicians who take advantage of them.  I&#8217;m no fan of fools with guns or folks who use them for their own ends, so I enjoyed <em>Fever Beach<\/em> a good deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this was written before the uptick in ICE enforcement.  I understand that these are different, but if you are looking to escape from images of folks in camo toting guns around American cities, I&#8217;d escape elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do like me some Carl Hiaasen. Fever Beach is his usual chaotic and comedic send up of politics and people who annoy him. This time he&#8217;s set his sights on right wing militia types and politicians who take advantage of them. I&#8217;m no fan of fools with guns or folks who use them for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","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=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}