{"id":140,"date":"2007-05-28T14:05:41","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T21:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2007-05-28T14:05:41","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T21:05:41","slug":"grishams-the-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/28\/grishams-the-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"Grisham&#8217;s The Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pleased (and a little surprised) with John Grisham&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Testament-John-Grisham\/dp\/0385493800\">The Testament<\/a><\/em>. I read several of his books during the 90s but nothing lately. The local library has a pretty good collection, though, and sometimes I pick out one I haven&#8217;t seen and read it. This one was worthwhile: the story of an eccentric gazillionaire who leaves his fortune to someone who really doesn&#8217;t want it, and the legal battle to keep it out of the hands of his children, who thought that they&#8217;d be inheriting the Old Man&#8217;s fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Grisham&#8217;s books are fine for an airplane trip, but nothing you&#8217;d be tempted to re-read. I&#8217;m not sure I want to re-read this one, for that matter, but I was pleased (a) that so little of the story took place in or around courtrooms, and (b) that Christianity was described in such neutral (i.e., fair) terms. I was not surprised that the hero eventually leaves the practice of law, since that&#8217;s a given in all of Grisham&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pleased (and a little surprised) with John Grisham&#8217;s The Testament. I read several of his books during the 90s but nothing lately. The local library has a pretty good collection, though, and sometimes I pick out one I haven&#8217;t seen and read it. This one was worthwhile: the story of an eccentric gazillionaire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-2g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}