{"id":697,"date":"2014-04-19T19:55:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T02:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/?p=697"},"modified":"2014-04-19T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T04:33:22","slug":"boys-in-the-boat-daniel-james-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"Boys in the Boat (Daniel James Brown)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3703\/13943432773_45861fcd66.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" align=\"right\" \/>Today I finished the best book I&#8217;ve read in a long time:<em><strong> The Boys in the Boat<\/strong><\/em> by Daniel James Brown. Like the crew described in the book, it starts out slowly and unassuming, but picks up the pace in a remarkable way. I read the last 120 pages this afternoon. Yes, it&#8217;s about the University of Washington&#8217;s 1935-1936 eight-man crew, but there&#8217;s so much more to it than rowing. A group of working class boys from nowhere, try to get through the Depression, and follow a dour coach <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">and a quietly poetic boat-builder on the waters of Lake Washington. They struggle quite a bit, each in their own ways, find a sort of mystical teamwork, &#8220;touch the divine&#8221; at one point, and maybe, just maybe, rattle Hitler at the Berlin Olympics. It&#8217;s inspirational and wonderfully well-written. One reviewer called it &#8220;Chariots of Fire with oars.&#8221; He&#8217;s right. And it&#8217;s expected to become a movie soon directed by Kenneth Branagh. But read it first. It&#8217;s that good.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I finished the best book I&#8217;ve read in a long time: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. Like the crew described in the book, it starts out slowly and unassuming, but picks up the pace in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/?p=697\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[250,251,163,249,248,252,222],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-berlin","tag-great-depression","tag-northwest","tag-olympics","tag-rowing","tag-teamwork","tag-washington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}