{"id":1330,"date":"2016-08-02T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2016-08-02T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:55:38","slug":"the-problem-of-the-amateur-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/the-problem-of-the-amateur-detective\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem of the Amateur Detective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I talk about the issues with writing mystery fiction using an amateur detective. How do you make a civilian crime-solver believable in an era of law enforcement technological sophistication? See my answer here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catherinedilts.com\/catherine-dilts---blog\/karen-mccullough-and-the-challenge-of-the-amateur-detective\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.catherinedilts.com\/catherine-dilts&#8212;blog\/karen-mccullough-and-the-challenge-of-the-amateur-detective<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talk about the issues with writing mystery fiction using an amateur detective. How do you make a civilian crime-solver believable in an era of law enforcement technological sophistication? See my answer here: http:\/\/www.catherinedilts.com\/catherine-dilts&#8212;blog\/karen-mccullough-and-the-challenge-of-the-amateur-detective<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/the-problem-of-the-amateur-detective\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-guest-blog","category-mysteries","category-writing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}