{"id":1130,"date":"2009-03-13T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T11:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2015-07-07T14:03:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:03:14","slug":"fiction_the_gue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/03\/fiction_the_gue.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book was just outright fantastic.  <strong>FANTASTIC<\/strong>!!!  Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>An epistolary novel (sigh. I have such a weakness for those!) relating the story of young writer who finds herself corresponding with a group of Guernsey natives, learning of their experiences during the German occupation.  Charming, poignant, moving.  It&#8217;s romantic and sad and just really really lovely.<\/p>\n<p>Best book I&#8217;ve read this year, hands down (and although I read it in January, I still think that now in March when I&#8217;m finally telling you about it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book was just outright fantastic. FANTASTIC!!! Highly recommended. An epistolary novel (sigh. I have such a weakness for those!) relating the story of young writer who finds herself corresponding with a group of Guernsey natives, learning of their experiences &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/03\/fiction_the_gue.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2996,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}