{"id":21516,"date":"2013-01-22T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/01\/22\/in-an-effort-to-digest-jonathan-strange-and-mr\/"},"modified":"2013-01-22T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:38:00","slug":"in-an-effort-to-digest-jonathan-strange-and-mr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/01\/22\/in-an-effort-to-digest-jonathan-strange-and-mr\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in an effort to digest <em>Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell<\/em>, I&rsquo;m reading The Princess Bride with <a href=\"http:\/\/stayathomemom2.tumblr.com\/\">Sara<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>because oh my god. <em>Strange &amp; Norrell<\/em>. I have truly never read an ending so perfect. I like to exaggerate on these things, but know this: it is not an exaggeration when I intend to put it into the previously-two-book perennial reading rotation (the other two being <em>Watership Down<\/em> and <em>Ender&rsquo;s Game<\/em>). I consider it so formative an experience in both my literary education and my personal growth that yes, despite being over 1000 pages, it will most certainly get many more read-throughs.<\/p>\n<p>anyway. I&rsquo;m SO glad I hadn&rsquo;t read Princess Bride before now, because I would not have been able to so closely relate to the love stuff. it makes rather perfect sense to me now. I&rsquo;m about 1\/5 through already (lunchtime reading is BACK) and it&rsquo;s delightful. a perfect palate-cleanser after the wild beauty that was\u00a0<em>Strange &amp; Norrell<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in an effort to digest Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, I&rsquo;m reading The Princess Bride with Sara. because oh my god. Strange &amp; Norrell. I have truly never read an ending so perfect. I like to exaggerate on these things, but know this: it is not an exaggeration when I intend to put it into &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/01\/22\/in-an-effort-to-digest-jonathan-strange-and-mr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7744,7742,7743],"class_list":["post-21516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-august-just-reads-a-lot-okay","tag-august-reads-jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell","tag-august-reads-the-princess-bride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}