{"id":239,"date":"2007-09-07T15:57:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T15:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2007-09-07T15:57:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T15:57:57","slug":"b-c-street-new-book-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/research\/bibliography\/b-c-street-new-book-on-amazon","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;B.C. Street&#8221; new book on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book written by Ed Cooper. From the Amazon.com description: An exotic blend of East meets West, <em>B.C. Street<\/em>, based in part on actual events drawn from recent history, is a romantic tale of a young U.S. Marine&rsquo;s first love during a time when the U.S. military exercised governance in the Far East.<br \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During the 1960s, young U.S. Marine Timothy Cole discovers love with Kimiko, a beautiful Okinawan nightclub hostess. Unexpectedly, his overseas adventure spirals into moral conflict and tragedy when his values clash with the demands of patriotism and loyalty to his country.<\/p>\n<p><em>B.C. Street <\/em>is an adventurous military romp set against the backdrop of errant U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic arrogance compounded by the unbridled behavior of a few undisciplined GIs. Not since Michener&rsquo;s <em>Sayonara <\/em>and Lederer and Burdick&rsquo;s <em>The Ugly American<\/em> has an American novel been cloaked in the ineptitude of U.S. foreign policy and the highhandedness of U.S. military occupation.<\/p>\n<p>\nAbout the Author<br \/>\nE. A. Cooper served on Okinawa in the 1960s. His combat duty followed in Vietnam with the Third Marine Division. He studied journalism and earned a doctorate in adult education at the University of Georgia. Cooper currently serves as dean of evening administration with Albany Technical College in Albany, Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book written by Ed Cooper. From the Amazon.com description: An exotic blend of East meets West, B.C. Street, based in part on actual events drawn from recent history, is a romantic tale of a young U.S. Marine&rsquo;s first love during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/research\/bibliography\/b-c-street-new-book-on-amazon\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}