{"id":2554,"date":"2017-04-13T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T02:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:44:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:44:48","slug":"highly-recommended-by-people-who-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/highly-recommended-by-people-who-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Highly Recommended by People Who Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Xenophobia-Peter-Cawdron-ebook\/dp\/B00DJJWG7O\">XENOPHOBIA<\/a> is a first-contact novel by Peter Cawdron, who seems to have a cottage industry of first-contact novels. \u00a0I bought this book on the strength of a recommendation. \u00a0I will let you know what I think of it either from the first page, or the first act. \u00a0:-)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When an alien spacecraft appears in orbit, America is thrown into turmoil. US troops are withdrawn from hotspots around the globe to provide support at home.<\/p>\n<p>In Malawi, Africa, a band of US Rangers remains behind to serve as peacekeepers, but when hundreds of alien spacecraft begin soaring overhead, the dynamics of war take on an entirely new dimension.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have shied away from science fiction recently, because most of it is bad. \u00a0Here&#8217;s to hope!<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2554\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2554\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Xenophobia-Peter-Cawdron-ebook\/dp\/B00DJJWG7O\">XENOPHOBIA<\/a> is a first-contact novel by Peter Cawdron, who seems to have a cottage industry of first-contact novels. \u00a0I bought this book on the strength of a recommendation. \u00a0I will let you know what I think of it either from the first page, or the first act. \u00a0:-)<\/p>\n<p>When an alien spacecraft appears in orbit, America is thrown into turmoil. US troops are withdrawn from hotspots around the globe to provide support at home.<\/p>\n<p>In Malawi, Africa, a band of US Rangers remains behind to serve as peacekeepers, but when hundreds of alien spacecraft begin soaring overhead, the dynamics of war take on an entirely new dimension.<\/p>\n<p>I have shied away from science fiction recently, because most of it is bad. \u00a0Here&#8217;s to hope!<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger ... <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/highly-recommended-by-people-who-know\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}