{"id":1920,"date":"2025-01-04T16:34:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T16:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2025-01-04T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T16:34:51","slug":"a-dangerous-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/a-dangerous-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dangerous Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I read this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Dangerous-Fortune-Ken-Follett-ebook\/dp\/B003GK22ZC\/\">book<\/a> a second time without realising. The first time was several years ago, I think it was one of first English books bough in paper. The second time was a cheap deal at 99p for the ebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, I enjoyed it. The thrill, the twists, really engaging. It reminds to &#8220;The Pillars of the Earth&#8221; It is funny how this reminds me to all the bank crashes we had in 2008\/9 and even last year in Silicon Valley.  We don&#8217;t learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this book a second time without realising. The first time was several years ago, I think it was one of first English books bough in paper. The second time was a cheap deal at 99p for the ebook. And, I enjoyed it. The thrill, the twists, really engaging. It reminds to &#8220;The Pillars &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/a-dangerous-fortune\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Dangerous Fortune&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}