{"id":208,"date":"2006-11-18T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=208"},"modified":"2006-11-18T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T22:08:00","slug":"little-children-by-tom-perrotta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/11\/little-children-by-tom-perrotta.html","title":{"rendered":"Little Children by Tom Perrotta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d never read anything by Tom Perrotta before but I enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312315732\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Little Children<\/a> right up to the end where it fell apart.  Guess he didn&#8217;t know what to do with it.  But the intertwining plots were all interesting up to that point and it seemed like they ought to come together in a blazing climax.  If I were his editor, I&#8217;d make him do it again.  I&#8217;ll read more by him though because his writing is engaging and his plot was timely but original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d never read anything by Tom Perrotta before but I enjoyed Little Children right up to the end where it fell apart. Guess he didn&#8217;t know what to do with it. But the intertwining plots were all interesting up to that point and it seemed like they ought to come together in a blazing climax. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mysteryhorrorsuspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}