{"id":87,"date":"2004-11-14T18:05:55","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T22:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/grgb\/2004\/11\/14\/maximum-bob\/"},"modified":"2006-06-17T12:04:21","modified_gmt":"2006-06-17T18:04:21","slug":"maximum-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grgb\/2004\/11\/14\/maximum-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximum Bob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a57'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is Elmore Leonard at his best. Judge <em>Maximum<\/em> Bob Gibbs hands down tough sentences once too often and some of his customers would like a little revenge. Meanwhile, he has his eye on probation officer Kathy Baker, who wants to know where the Judge&#8217;a wife has gone and who put the alligator in his back yard.<\/p>\n<p>The novel was spun into a summer replacement <a href=\"http:\/\/epguides.com\/MaximumBob\/\">televison series<\/a> several years ago. starring Beau Bridges. I don&#8217;t think the series did justice to Leonard&#8217;s characters, but it was still better than most shows.<\/p>\n<p>Published in paperback by Dell. ISBN 0440212189<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Elmore Leonard at his best. Judge Maximum Bob Gibbs hands down tough sentences once too often and some of his customers would like a little revenge. Meanwhile, he has his eye on probation officer Kathy Baker, who wants to know where the Judge&#8217;a wife has gone and who put the alligator in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,630],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-mystery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/grgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}