{"id":430,"date":"2007-08-28T16:37:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T23:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/430"},"modified":"2021-05-30T21:36:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T01:36:48","slug":"american-gods-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/430","title":{"rendered":"American Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just re-read American Gods<\/em><\/a> and found that I liked it even better the third time around. Perhaps because I read it more slowly, and thought more about the mythology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just re-read American Gods and found that I liked it even better the third time around. 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