{"id":11423,"date":"2016-06-09T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=11423"},"modified":"2016-09-06T21:38:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T02:38:17","slug":"reading-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=11423","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0004\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7645\/26338790253_d006f280cf_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0004\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7645\/26338790253_b5ea5f3afe_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0004\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/25852870-eligible?ac=1&amp;from_search=true\" target=\"_blank\">Eligible<\/a>, by Curtis Sittenfeld<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I enjoyed this fun read, something I would consider an indulgence, especially right after reading <i>Between the World and Me<\/i>, which left me needing something light and mindless. Sittenfeld, who is originally from Cincinnati, is now a St. Louis native. Being familiar with both cities, I enjoyed the references to Cincinnati (including neighborhoods, Skyline Chili, and references to the elite and ridiculous parts of the city), and I enjoyed the thought of Sittenfeld being right around the corner here in St. Louis (though I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever spotted her!). The story is a modern retelling of\u00a0<em>Pride and Prejudice,\u00a0<\/em>a book I haven&#8217;t read since high school, but remember enjoying at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Though the end was somewhat kitchy, I think this book is the perfect summer read if you&#8217;re looking to escape into someone else&#8217;s family drama for awhile! It would make the perfect beach or poolside read, if you have time for things like that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eligible, by Curtis Sittenfeld I enjoyed this fun read, something I would consider an indulgence, especially right after reading Between the World and Me, which left me needing something light and mindless. Sittenfeld, who is originally from Cincinnati, is now a St. Louis native. Being familiar with both cities, I enjoyed the references to Cincinnati &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=11423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-11423","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\/11423","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=11423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11424,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11423\/revisions\/11424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}