{"id":339,"date":"2009-08-28T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=339"},"modified":"2009-08-28T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T17:47:00","slug":"songs-of-humpback-whale-by-jodi-picault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2009\/08\/songs-of-humpback-whale-by-jodi-picault.html","title":{"rendered":"Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read a few books by Jodi Picault and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743431014\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Songs of the Humpback Whale<\/a> blends in with the others.  Picault is very attached to motherhood and long term relationships&#8211;not two of my specialities&#8211;but her characters are vivid and sympathetic enough to keep my attention.  This one was a bit of a tragedy in that no one ends up happy, and yet she presents the fact that the lead character is going to go on being a wife and mother as triumph enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read a few books by Jodi Picault and Songs of the Humpback Whale blends in with the others. Picault is very attached to motherhood and long term relationships&#8211;not two of my specialities&#8211;but her characters are vivid and sympathetic enough to keep my attention. This one was a bit of a tragedy in that no [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}