{"id":117,"date":"2007-01-08T21:53:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T01:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=117"},"modified":"2007-01-08T21:53:09","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T01:53:09","slug":"wide-awake-by-david-levithanalfred-a-knopf-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wide-awake-by-david-levithanalfred-a-knopf-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Wide Awake by David LevithanAlfred A. Knopf, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book&#8217;s set in a not-too-distant future in which America, after struggling through &#8220;the Greater Depression&#8221; and fighting a failed &#8220;War to End All Wars,&#8221; has elected a gay Jewish president. Predictably, this doesn&#8217;t sit well with some people: a recount is ordered and it&#8217;s unclear as to whether the machinations of the opposition party will succeed. I don&#8217;t have much to say about the plot (though I enjoyed it), but: I love the pacing and rhythm of Levithan&#8217;s novels, the way he focuses on details at the right moments, the passing scenery from bus windows or the harmony of &#8220;Amazing Grace&#8221; or the softness of a kiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book&#8217;s set in a not-too-distant future in which America, after struggling through &#8220;the Greater Depression&#8221; and fighting a failed &#8220;War to End All Wars,&#8221; has elected a gay Jewish president. Predictably, this doesn&#8217;t sit well with some people: a recount is ordered and it&#8217;s unclear as to whether the machinations of the opposition party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","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=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}