{"id":967,"date":"2017-12-10T00:12:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T00:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pathbroeske.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2017-12-10T00:40:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T00:40:42","slug":"taking-aim-at-weaponry-book-em-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathbroeske.com\/taking-aim-at-weaponry-book-em-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking aim at weaponry; Book &#8217;em for the holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Tis the season for gift-giving. How about a Hollywood-themed book?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the December issue of <em>BookPage<\/em>, I review a quintet of new titles: a double biography of (unlikely) best pals Henry Fonda and James Stewart; a look at the making of the seminal Sixties film, \u201cThe Graduate;\u201d\u00a0 lavish coffee table books about icons Grace Kelly and Sophia Loren; and the clever \u2018Cinemaps,\u2019 which charts plotlines of favorite films. Santa, start shopping!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Weaponry experts are locked &amp; loaded with advice at MWA meeting<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the December issue of <em>The March of Crime<\/em>, the newsletter of the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America, I write about the use \u2013 and misuse \u2013 of weaponry. It\u2019s per a recent MWA meeting\u2019s panel discussion with authors David Putnam and Janet Joyce Holden, and Daric Manser, special agent with the FBI\u2019s bomb technician program. The moderator was FBI special agent Thomas Leighton, a firearms instructor. He\u2019s also a mystery genre fan. As is Yours Truly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u2018Tis the season for gift-giving. How about a Hollywood-themed book? In the December issue of BookPage, I review a quintet of new titles: a double biography of (unlikely) best pals Henry Fonda and James Stewart; a look at the making of the seminal Sixties film, \u201cThe Graduate;\u201d\u00a0 lavish coffee table books about icons Grace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathbroeske.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathbroeske.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathbroeske.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathbroeske.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathbroeske.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathbroeske.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathbroeske.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathbroeske.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathbroeske.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}