{"id":7793,"date":"2013-07-26T00:51:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T04:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=7793"},"modified":"2015-04-06T13:33:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:33:45","slug":"book-review-attila-king-of-the-huns-the-man-and-the-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2013\/07\/26\/book-review-attila-king-of-the-huns-the-man-and-the-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Attila: King of the Huns: The Man and the Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/237494.Attila\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Attila: King of the Huns: The Man and the Myth\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1172994844m\/237494.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/237494.Attila\">Attila: King of the Huns: The Man and the Myth<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/138958.Patrick_Howarth\">Patrick Howarth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/223610166\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A woman asked me about a quarter into this book, &#8220;What is the one thing about Attila that I should care?&#8221; Now that I have finished, I still do not know the answer. Go read about Charlemagne, Chingis Khan, Julius Caesar, and\/or William the Conqueror.<\/p>\n<p>Like many other Dumb Americans, at the time I bought the book, I probably was thinking of the sack of Rome. That was a few decades earlier by Visigoths. Attila was late to the party.<\/p>\n<p>The book is written well to set the stage. It explains the stories which have differing perspectives. But it is light on finding enough dots to make conclusions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/767304-ezra\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attila: King of the Huns: The Man and the Myth by Patrick Howarth My rating: 3 of 5 stars A woman asked me about a quarter into this book, &#8220;What is the one thing about Attila that I should care?&#8221; Now that I have finished, I still do not know the answer. Go read about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256],"tags":[2706,2752,2753,2750,2755,2607,2751,2754],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","tag-book-review","tag-charlemagne","tag-chingis-khan","tag-julius-caesar","tag-patrick-howarth","tag-posted-2013","tag-visigoths","tag-william-the-conqueror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-21H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}