{"id":191,"date":"2008-08-31T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2008-08-31T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T07:00:00","slug":"on-the-beach-by-shute-nevil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"<u>On the Beach<\/u>, by Shute, Nevil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I have been on a bit of a post-apocalypse kick again.  I go through this every so often.  In the last week I have read and watched quite bit of post-apocalypse stories, including Galapagos, by Vonnegut, and Jeremiah, starring Luke Perry.  But I also re-read On the Beach, by Nevil Shute.  It&apos;s not the earliest catastrophe novel, but it is one of the first modern post-apocalypse books, and it has the distinct honor of having been made into an Academy Award nominated movie that was di<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/207'>[&#8230;]<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/207'>Read the rest of this review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I have been on a bit of a post-apocalypse kick again. I go through this every so often. In the last week I have read and watched quite bit of post-apocalypse stories, including Galapagos, by Vonnegut, and Jeremiah, starring Luke Perry. But I also re-read On the Beach, by Nevil Shute. It&apos;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[2470,2468,2528,2464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}