{"id":135,"date":"2026-05-02T06:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasshess.com\/?page_id=135"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:56:59","slug":"cantina-psalms-review","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thomasshess.com\/?page_id=135","title":{"rendered":"Cantina Psalms Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cCantina Psalms is author Thomas Shess\u2019s debut novel, and I\u2019ll tell you this: Mr. Shess colors outside the lines. &nbsp;His command of the city of San Francisco\u2014its patois, its bars &amp; restaurants, its neighborhoods, its power brokers and guttersnipes\u2014is commendable. &nbsp;His characters simply jump off the page and slap you in the face. &nbsp;The omniscient narrator is a rascally character in his own right, a linguistic sorcerer who is adept at jeu&nbsp;de mots as he would be picking your pockets. &nbsp;The vibrant characters, the mercurial action, the author\u2019s delicious wordplay\u2014traversing this novel was, for me, a truly guilty-pleasure.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212; ERIC PETERSON, AUTHOR OF THE \u201cDINING CAR\u201d AND \u201cSUNSHINE CHIEF.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCantina Psalms is author Thomas Shess\u2019s debut novel, and I\u2019ll tell you this: Mr. Shess colors outside the lines. &nbsp;His command of the city of San Francisco\u2014its patois, its bars &amp; restaurants, its neighborhoods, its power brokers and guttersnipes\u2014is commendable. &nbsp;His characters simply jump off the page and slap you in the face. &nbsp;The omniscient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-135","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasshess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasshess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasshess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasshess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasshess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thomasshess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/thomasshess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasshess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}