{"id":94,"date":"2005-10-06T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=94"},"modified":"2005-10-06T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T18:24:00","slug":"cry-beloved-country-by-alan-paton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2005\/10\/cry-beloved-country-by-alan-paton.html","title":{"rendered":"Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of two African families, one white and one black, coming together through misfortune, <a style=\"text-decoration: none\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0007YJ3VQ\/tradgirl\" target='new'>Cry, The Beloved Country<\/a> is told in a variety of manners, sometimes personally and sometimes from a great distance.  It&#8217;s informational without being preachy and does a great job of conveying the problem without pretending it has a solution.  At times the prose is almost poetical in its description of the countryside but the overall tone is one of gloom and despair, though leading torwards to hope at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of two African families, one white and one black, coming together through misfortune, Cry, The Beloved Country is told in a variety of manners, sometimes personally and sometimes from a great distance. It&#8217;s informational without being preachy and does a great job of conveying the problem without pretending it has a solution. At [&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-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}