{"id":10956,"date":"2016-04-07T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10956"},"modified":"2016-09-07T10:38:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:38:50","slug":"reading-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10956","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0020\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1582\/26129611412_a18c64a253_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0020\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1582\/26129611412_1ea788f63d_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0020\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cormacmccarthy.com\/works\/the-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Road<\/a>, by Cormac McCarthy<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I read this in\u00a0<em>one day.\u00a0<\/em>It was so good, so captivating, I could not put it down! The story is dark and bleak, set in a post-apocalyptic world filled with grey, dusty air and a burnt-out landscape (while the catastrophe is unnamed, one gathers that it may be nuclear war that caused such destruction &#8212; with no green in sight, dirty toxic air and water, no animals or fresh food to speak of), and at the beginning of the book, I found it difficult to get over the depressing nature of the story. But something happened along the way, as I read about the father and his young son trying desperately to survive the elements and living meal-to-meal while dodging danger everywhere; I began to see the small details with a touched and open heart. The small kindnesses, particularly from the perspective of the young boy, gave beauty and light to the bleak story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This was an amazing book that has stuck with me and even entered my dreams since I finished it a week ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Road, by Cormac McCarthy I read this in\u00a0one day.\u00a0It was so good, so captivating, I could not put it down! The story is dark and bleak, set in a post-apocalyptic world filled with grey, dusty air and a burnt-out landscape (while the catastrophe is unnamed, one gathers that it may be nuclear war that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[48,132],"class_list":["post-10956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-motherhood","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956","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=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10966,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions\/10966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}