{"id":453,"date":"2012-05-31T00:06:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T07:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2020-11-24T18:44:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T02:44:52","slug":"books_9780917990663","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Somebody Wants Somebody Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Phillip Gardner&#8217;s collection of stories <em> <strong> Somebody Wants Somebody Dead<\/strong> <\/em> pretty much corners the market when it comes to people living on the wrong side of the law\u2014which is usually the <em> right <\/em> side of the law in these locales \u2014and taking matters into their own hands. Throw in a garbage collecting voyeur, an obese drowning victim, a Bicycle Man, and a whole knot of ne&#8217;er-do-wells and these fantastic stories will make you think, &#8220;My life&#8217;s bad, but it ain&#8217;t <em> this <\/em> bad,&#8221; which is to say that Gardner&#8217;s hit the mark in the tragi-comedy venue. &#8221; \u2014George Singleton, author of <strong> <em> The Half-Mammals of Dixie<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Somebody Wants Somebody Dead<\/strong><\/em> is available in print and e-book formats from various booksellers.\u00a0 For details, see our <a title=\"Somebody Wants Somebody Dead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bosonbooks.com\/boson\/fiction\/somebody\/somebody.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Boson Books<\/strong><\/a> imprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Phillip Gardner&#8217;s collection of stories <em> <strong> Somebody Wants Somebody Dead<\/strong> <\/em> pretty much corners the market when it comes to people living on the wrong side of the law\u2014which is usually the <em> right <\/em> side of the law in these locales \u2014and taking matters into their own hands. Throw in a garbage collecting [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17,5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitingduckpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}