{"id":1242,"date":"2005-11-23T19:27:01","date_gmt":"2005-11-24T03:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/11\/23\/better-dead\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:46:06","slug":"better-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/11\/23\/better-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Dame Rose Macaulay<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hee! I&#8217;m a bit of a reading snob, I suppose, because I think serial mysteries and romances fall into this classification. There are actually occasions when such a book is desireable, even a slightly sinful indulgence. My &#8220;I like time better dead&#8221; author used to be Lawrence Sanders many years ago. More recently it has been Patricia Cornwell&#8217;s <cite>Kay Scarpetta<\/cite> mysteries with a little Jonathan Kellerman thrown in. Some people like chicklit, others like romance or adventure or science fiction. What&#8217;s your genre for killing time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. &#8211;Dame Rose Macaulay Hee! I&#8217;m a bit of a reading snob, I suppose, because I think serial mysteries and romances fall into this classification. There are actually occasions when such a book is desireable, even a slightly sinful indulgence. My &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12427,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/12427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}