{"id":102,"date":"2006-11-02T20:40:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T00:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=102"},"modified":"2006-11-02T20:40:02","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T00:40:02","slug":"brookland-by-emily-bartonfarrar-straus-and-giroux-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/brookland-by-emily-bartonfarrar-straus-and-giroux-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookland by Emily BartonFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing, beautiful, detailed &#038; precise in descriptions of everything from emotional states to the mechanics of bridge-building to the many herbs and spices that can be used to flavor gin. And the sense of place, the 18th-century New York family names that linger as place-names, street-names: Joralemon, Sands, Boerum, Schermerhorn, Luquer. I found myself daydreaming of houses with Dutch doors, imagining New York when it was still clustered downtown, a Brooklyn that had recently been forest, colder winters, darker nights. The story itself is compelling, too, and the telling of it, which includes bits and pieces of letters from a mother to her daughter, full of wonderfully old-fashioned spelling, apostrophes in unexpected places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing, beautiful, detailed &#038; precise in descriptions of everything from emotional states to the mechanics of bridge-building to the many herbs and spices that can be used to flavor gin. And the sense of place, the 18th-century New York family names that linger as place-names, street-names: Joralemon, Sands, Boerum, Schermerhorn, Luquer. I found myself daydreaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}