{"id":2504,"date":"2009-03-04T21:19:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T02:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2009-03-04T21:19:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T02:19:18","slug":"they-always-say-write-what-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2504","title":{"rendered":"They always say, &#8220;Write what you know&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Master thriller writer Frederick Forsyth<\/strong> stumbled into a genuine political coup on a recent research trip to Guinea-Bissau in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>From the Associated Press:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hours before he touched down in the West African nation, a bomb hidden under a staircase blew apart the armed forces chief. Hours later the president was gunned down, and according to Forsyth, hacked to pieces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said he has stopped inventing fictional places &#8220;because the world is so weird and so scary, you might as well use the real ones.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/enews.earthlink.net\/article\/int?guid=20090304\/49ae0ad0_3426_1335020090304-1499548713\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master thriller writer Frederick Forsyth stumbled into a genuine political coup on a recent research trip to Guinea-Bissau in West Africa. From the Associated Press: Hours before he touched down in the West African nation, a bomb hidden under a staircase blew apart the armed forces chief. Hours later the president was gunned down, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2504\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">They always say, &#8220;Write what you know&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}