{"id":104,"date":"2006-11-21T17:47:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T21:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=104"},"modified":"2006-11-21T17:47:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T21:47:36","slug":"roumeli-travels-in-northern-greece-by-patrick-leigh-fermornew-york-review-of-books-2006-originally-john-murray-publishers-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/roumeli-travels-in-northern-greece-by-patrick-leigh-fermornew-york-review-of-books-2006-originally-john-murray-publishers-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leigh FermorNew York Review of Books, 2006 (originally John Murray, Publishers, 1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Leigh Fermor&#8217;s prose is wonderfully precise: it seems like each word has been carefully chosen from a rich and expansive vocabulary, and the result is a collection of essays where the tone of each seems perfectly suited to its subject matter. There are shepherds and monks, mountain-top monasteries and bus rides in the middle of nowhere; there&#8217;s a wonderfully pleasing story about a pair of Byron&#8217;s shoes. The final short essay, &#8220;Sounds of the Greek World,&#8221; is especially wonderful &#8212; the play of rhythms and images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Leigh Fermor&#8217;s prose is wonderfully precise: it seems like each word has been carefully chosen from a rich and expansive vocabulary, and the result is a collection of essays where the tone of each seems perfectly suited to its subject matter. There are shepherds and monks, mountain-top monasteries and bus rides in the middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","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=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}