{"id":12963,"date":"2016-12-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=12963"},"modified":"2016-12-30T20:38:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T02:38:55","slug":"reading-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=12963","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"IMG_0151\" href=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/467\/31371760940_2e0ba46172_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_0151\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/467\/31371760940_242850989a_h.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0151\" width=\"1201\" height=\"1600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emmadonoghue.com\/books\/novels\/the-wonder.html\">The Wonder<\/a>, by Emma Donoghue<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Set in her homeland of Ireland, more specifically the boggy Irish Midlands, in 1859,\u00a0<em>The Wonder\u00a0<\/em>is a mystery that unfolds slowly and dangerously as an eleven-year-old girl lies mostly holed up in her room over the course of many days. The mystery is one of survival and deceit; she has, supposedly, subsisted for 4 months on no food and a meager few teaspoons of water each day. The nurse who is hired to watch her and uncover the truth, a science-minded woman in a land of severe religious believers and superstitious minds, seeks to uncover the truth, and in turn, begins to love the chid as her own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I loved this book, as I did Donoghue&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Room,\u00a0<\/em>for its ability to stay in one place while going elsewhere in mind. Donoghue notes that the story is based on true events of the nearly 50 cases of &#8220;so-called Fasting Girls&#8221; between the 16th and 20th centuries, many of which were found to be hoaxes. The town&#8217;s desire to believe in a miracle blind them to the physical degeneration of the girl, and as the story progresses, uncovering the truth becomes a race against time. Of the 50 or so books I&#8217;ve read this past year, this one ranks in the top 10. It is a page-turner and exciting mystery, an indulgence that raises questions about how religion can go too far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wonder, by Emma Donoghue Set in her homeland of Ireland, more specifically the boggy Irish Midlands, in 1859,\u00a0The Wonder\u00a0is a mystery that unfolds slowly and dangerously as an eleven-year-old girl lies mostly holed up in her room over the course of many days. The mystery is one of survival and deceit; she has, supposedly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=12963\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12963","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=12963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12988,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12963\/revisions\/12988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}