{"id":10030,"date":"2005-10-24T12:07:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T16:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/10\/24\/10030.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:53:09","slug":"book-report-a-proud-taste-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/10\/24\/book-report-a-proud-taste-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure which seems less likely, that E.L. Konigsburg would have written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsays.com\/content\/book.cfm?sid=183&amp;pid=414587\">A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver<\/a>, a children&#8217;s fictional biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine, or that Your Humble Blogger would never have heard of it before two weeks ago?\n<p>I admit to a soft spot for Eleanor, inherited from my mother, who adores her. And I certainly sought out books by Ms. Konigsburg, having (as did everyone, I assume) enjoyed <I>From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler<\/i> and also liked <I>Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth<\/i> and the B&#8217;nai Bagels books, back when it was a delight and a surprise to find a mainstream book about One of Us. Not that I understood about <I>mainstream<\/I> at that point. Not that I do now. And wasn&#8217;t there a sort of sequel to <I>About the B&#8217;nai Bagels<\/I>? Not about the team, I mean, but about the family. Anyway, I have no idea whether our local libraries just failed to stock this book, or whether I somehow missed it on the K shelf, or whether I actually did read it, and just forgot about it entirely.\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s an odd book. Matilda, Abbot Suger, and Eleanor are in heaven ... no, it&#8217;s not a joke.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not sure which seems less likely, that E.L. Konigsburg would have written A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, a children\u2019s fictional biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine, or that Your Humble Blogger would never have heard of it before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17572,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions\/17572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}