{"id":11702,"date":"2008-12-10T12:05:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T17:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/12\/10\/11702.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:49:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:49:50","slug":"book-report-cranford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/12\/10\/book-report-cranford\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Cranford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do y'all remember when Your Humble Blogger was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/08\/21\/11394.html\">on about<\/a> how despite a deep and abiding love for the novels of Charles Dickens, the Victorian Novel generally had little appeal? And then I read <I>Felix Holt<\/i> and liked it a lot? Well, I watched the video of Cranford based largely on the cast (Eileen Atkins! Will I ever tire of watching you scowl?), and adored it, and so I pick up <a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780141439884,00.html?Cranford_Elizabeth_Gaskell\">the book<\/a>. I can't say I adored the book, although I enjoyed it despite its narrative deficiencies, but I liked it enough to want to read something else by Elizabeth Gaskell at some point. I'm all full up for reading, just now, but it'll stick in the back of my mind. I may end up liking Victorian Novels despite myself, and then where will I be?<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is in the middle of a mystery novel, a biography and a book on the language of Shakespeare, as well as a book about political psychology that I think I&#8217;ve given up on and two more novellas that I want to get to before the end of the month, when I will start to get really busy.<\/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-11702","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\/11702","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=11702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18616,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions\/18616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}