{"id":435,"date":"2014-12-05T01:50:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T01:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2014-12-14T05:22:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T05:22:44","slug":"an-economist-book-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"An Economist &#8216;book of the year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Economist-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-376\" alt=\"The-Economist-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Economist-logo-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Economist-logo-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Economist-logo.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m very pleased to say that The Economist has listed South China Sea &#8211; the struggle for power in Asia as one of its best books of 2014. I&#8217;m honoured that it&#8217;s among such exalted company as\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Evan Osnos&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><em>Age of Ambition<\/em> and\u00a0Louisa Lim&#8217;s\u00a0<em>People&#8217;s Republic of Amnesia. \u00a0<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">You can read the full list of books of the year at The Economist&#8217;s site\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" title=\"Link to the article on The Economist's site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/books-and-arts\/21635446-best-books-2014-were-about-south-china-sea-fall-berlin-wall-kaiser\">here<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to say that The Economist has listed South China Sea &#8211; the struggle for power in Asia as one of its best books of 2014. I&#8217;m honoured that it&#8217;s among such exalted company as\u00a0Evan Osnos&#8217;s\u00a0Age of Ambition and\u00a0Louisa Lim&#8217;s\u00a0People&#8217;s Republic of Amnesia. \u00a0You can read the full list of books of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[19,16],"tags":[37,23],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Economist-logo.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tOHn-71","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}