{"id":140,"date":"2007-06-20T05:49:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T09:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=140"},"modified":"2007-06-20T05:49:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T09:49:24","slug":"the-testament-of-yves-gundron-by-emily-bartonfarrar-straus-and-giroux-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-testament-of-yves-gundron-by-emily-bartonfarrar-straus-and-giroux-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"The Testament of Yves Gundron by Emily BartonFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Imagine the time of my grandfather&#8217;s grandfather, when darkness was newly separated from light.&#8221;&#8212;thus begins Yves Gundron&#8217;s &#8220;treatise on the nature of change.&#8221; Yves lives in a village called Mandragora, a village nestled below mountains, not far from a city called Nnms. Yves and his neighbors are farmers; Yves is also an inventor, and his first invention, the harness, promises to revolutionize the lives of Mandragorans. But the harness isn&#8217;t the only change to befall this little town, where things may not be as they first seem. I love the pace of Barton&#8217;s writing, and Yves, as writer and as inventor, is a wonderful narrator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Imagine the time of my grandfather&#8217;s grandfather, when darkness was newly separated from light.&#8221;&#8212;thus begins Yves Gundron&#8217;s &#8220;treatise on the nature of change.&#8221; Yves lives in a village called Mandragora, a village nestled below mountains, not far from a city called Nnms. Yves and his neighbors are farmers; Yves is also an inventor, and his [&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-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}