{"id":175,"date":"2017-11-23T21:23:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T21:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:21:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T22:21:57","slug":"no-brainer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/books\/no-brainer\/","title":{"rendered":"No-Brainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148\" src=\"http:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/No-Brainer-1-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/No-Brainer-1-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/No-Brainer-1-768x1071.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/No-Brainer-1-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/No-Brainer-1-940x1311.jpg 940w, https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/No-Brainer-1-500x697.jpg 500w, https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/No-Brainer-1.jpg 1879w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Say Books NZ 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>My problem, I was trying to make him understand, was not so much that he was an evil asshole, but that he pretended otherwise. I wasn\u2019t having much success communicating this distinction while he had his pistol barrel stuck halfway down my throat.\u00a0In the back of my mind, while there was still such a thing, I wondered how an evening that had started with Main Divide Pinot Noir and pumpernickel cheese straws could end up like this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A darkly humorous crime novel set in Auckland, New Zealand. Jules Dijkstra is an unsuccesful sculptor who turns to blackmail to get people to buy his art. Then one of his victims makes him an offer. It seems like a no-brainer, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This was my attempt at a commercial crime story. So, of course, hardly anyone bought it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/No-Brainer-Zirk-van-den-Berg-ebook\/dp\/B005LG9WRU\/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1511592387&amp;sr=8-12&amp;keywords=zirk+van+den+berg\"><strong>Buy the Kindle version on Amazon.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My problem, I was trying to make him understand, was not so much that he was an evil asshole, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":165,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions\/698"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zirkvandenberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}