{"id":298,"date":"2004-12-07T22:49:15","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T03:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=298"},"modified":"2004-12-07T22:49:15","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T03:49:15","slug":"stark_richard_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/12\/stark_richard_t\/","title":{"rendered":"Stark, Richard: The Outfit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I also read one of Westlake&#8217;s books under the name <strong>Richard Stark, <cite>The Outfit<\/cite><\/strong> (Westlake may be unique in doing the silly stuff under his own name and the dark stuff under a pseudonym). This is the third Parker book, which I read because Chad described how the middle section is a lovingly-detailed series of descriptions of organized crime rackets and the ways in which Parker&#8217;s acquaintances knock them over. That was good stuff, but the rest is too brutal for my taste. I know it&#8217;s silly and escapist, but I prefer not to read caper novels with actual, you know, hardened criminals (as Kelp says sometime or other, I prefer &#8220;crooks,&#8221; it&#8217;s jauntier).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I also read one of Westlake&#8217;s books under the name Richard Stark, The Outfit (Westlake may be unique in doing the silly stuff under his own name and the dark stuff under a pseudonym). This is the third Parker book, which I read because Chad described how the middle section is a lovingly-detailed series of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/12\/stark_richard_t\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stark, Richard: The Outfit&#8221;<\/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":[48,6],"tags":[397],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-mystery","tag-stark-richard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}