{"id":2509,"date":"2014-01-15T17:53:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T17:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2025-06-03T18:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:09:13","slug":"shock-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/shock-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"library-thumb\" title=\"Shock Wave\" src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/graphics\/books\/shockwave.jpg\" alt=\"Shock Wave\" height=\"160px\" \/><br \/>\nI inherited this book from my daughter and I don&#8217;t think I have read any by <a href=\"http:\/\/clive-cussler-books.com\/\">Clive Cussler<\/a> before. This, it turns out, is actually in the middle of his &#8220;Dirk Pitt&#8221; book series.<\/p>\n<p>It was quite a good yarn &#8211; although to my mind not as good as Tom Clancy. The plot was, perhaps, a bit predictable &#8211; which isn&#8217;t unusual in books &#8211; so it perhaps suited what I needed in my current speed reading sessions&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I inherited this book from my daughter and I don&#8217;t think I have read any by Clive Cussler before. This, it turns out, is actually in the middle of his &#8220;Dirk Pitt&#8221; book series. It was quite a good yarn &#8211; although to my mind not as good as Tom Clancy. The plot was, perhaps, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/shock-wave\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shock Wave&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}