{"id":1523,"date":"2015-09-24T10:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T15:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2015-09-24T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T15:48:07","slug":"book-review-descent-into-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Descent into Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/19165790-descent-into-darkness\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1386112896m\/19165790.jpg\" alt=\"Descent into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941-A Navy Diver's Memoir\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/19165790-descent-into-darkness\">Descent into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941-A Navy Diver&#8217;s Memoir<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/683482.Edward_C_Raymer\">Edward C. Raymer<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1369178703\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A memoir of the first year of the war, written by a veteran after the fact. Does a great job of filling in some of the &#8220;day in the life&#8221; of being a sailor at that time. This is the second book I&#8217;ve read by someone stationed in Pearl Harbor, and it&#8217;s odd to hear how the place was universally hated by military personnel. It wasn&#8217;t yet the paradise it is today.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The strength of this title, and the reason I sought it out, lies in fleshing-out the specifics of the life of a diver. The gear, the conditions, and the unique problems of diving on the wrecks of Pearl Harbor, such as hazards of jagged metal, poisonous gases, floating bodies, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommended for anyone wanting information on those who did the preliminary work of resurrecting the battleships sunk at Pearl Harbor and returning them to the fight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/22289291-devin-poore\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Descent into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941-A Navy Diver&#8217;s Memoir by Edward C. Raymer My rating: 4 of 5 stars A memoir of the first year of the war, written by a veteran after the fact. Does a great job of filling in some of the &#8220;day in the life&#8221; of being a sailor at that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pha1lg-oz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}