{"id":1245,"date":"2017-06-28T21:59:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T21:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2017-06-28T21:59:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T21:59:14","slug":"28th-june-2017-misspent-youth-peter-f-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"28th June 2017 &#8211; Misspent Youth &#8211; Peter F Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1257\" src=\"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/my-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/my-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/my.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>On the family day out on Saturday we ended the day in Whitby, so I could visit a second hand bookshop there. While I was there I saw Misspent Youth again, I had previously not bought it as I wasn&#8217;t sure if I had it. But now that I can check my collection with the Goodreads app, I did just that and realised that I didn&#8217;t actually have it.<\/p>\n<p>So I bought it and as I was waiting for the wife and kid started reading it out in the sun. By Sunday night I was over halfway through the book and by Monday I am 3\/4 through. If I hadn&#8217;t been to work I would definitely been finished.<\/p>\n<p>This does happen when I get a book that really grips me, and this one has done just that. Not even a space sci-fi type of book its set in our near future and centres around the first man to get a new rejuvenation tech, making a main his 80s around 25 again. It follows the results and then how people treat him afterwards and how his life turns out. I am not done with it yet but its definitely been a book I have enjoyed as I have read it so quick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the family day out on Saturday we ended the day in Whitby, so I could visit a second hand bookshop there. While I was there I saw Misspent Youth again, I had previously not bought it as I wasn&#8217;t sure if I had it. But now that I can check my collection with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,112,90,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-books","category-review","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}