{"id":10268,"date":"2015-11-19T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10268"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:16:17","slug":"reading-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10268","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0008\" href=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/781\/22710430049_22eca535f4_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0008\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/781\/22710430049_1ea8d09a7b_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0008\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I just started this one &#8212; it&#8217;s meant as a companion to <em>Life After Life<\/em>, which has been so far my favorite of Atkinson&#8217;s books. This one takes many of the same characters (and then some) and tells the story of the younger brother of Ursula (the main character in <em>Life After Life<\/em>), Teddy, who grows up to become a bomber for the RAF in World War II. As usual, I am really enjoying the character development early on. I am especially enjoying the train wreck that is Teddy&#8217;s daughter, Viola. Really enjoying this one, and looking forward to reading more about the British perspective of World War II!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson I just started this one &#8212; it&#8217;s meant as a companion to Life After Life, which has been so far my favorite of Atkinson&#8217;s books. This one takes many of the same characters (and then some) and tells the story of the younger brother of Ursula (the main &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-10268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10269,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268\/revisions\/10269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}