{"id":157,"date":"2007-09-08T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=157"},"modified":"2007-09-08T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T20:18:11","slug":"the-waves-by-virginia-woolfharvest-books-1978-originally-hogarth-press-1931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-waves-by-virginia-woolfharvest-books-1978-originally-hogarth-press-1931\/","title":{"rendered":"The Waves by Virginia WoolfHarvest Books, 1978 (originally Hogarth Press, 1931)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book to read slowly, in sips. One image, then the next, then the next: how jarring it is at the start, to step into one character&#8217;s thoughts, then another&#8217;s, then another&#8217;s. The tension between aloneness and connection, or the balance. How time passes. The poetry of place: the sea, the garden, St. Paul&#8217;s with &#8220;the polished brasses; the flapping and the chanting, while one boy&#8217;s voice wails round the dome like some lost and wandering dove&#8221; (281).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book to read slowly, in sips. One image, then the next, then the next: how jarring it is at the start, to step into one character&#8217;s thoughts, then another&#8217;s, then another&#8217;s. The tension between aloneness and connection, or the balance. How time passes. The poetry of place: the sea, the garden, St. Paul&#8217;s with [&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-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","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=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}