{"id":18,"date":"2005-03-05T22:44:11","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T02:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=9"},"modified":"2005-03-05T22:44:11","modified_gmt":"2005-03-06T02:44:11","slug":"the-grand-tour-by-patricia-c-wrede-and-caroline-stevermerharcourt-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-grand-tour-by-patricia-c-wrede-and-caroline-stevermerharcourt-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Tour by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline StevermerHarcourt, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been waiting for months for the library to acquire this book. It&#8217;s the sequel to <i>Sorcery &#038; Cecelia<\/i>, an epistolary novel that I absolutely loved. These books are a blend of historical fiction (set in 1817) and fantasy (magic\/wizardry in the British tradition), and they&#8217;re clever and exciting and oh, wonderful. In this one, the two pairs of newlyweds (Kate and Thomas, Cecelia and James) set off on a honeymoon jaunt for Europe. The world that Wrede and Stevermer have created being what it is, it&#8217;s not long before the couples find themselves in the middle of a string of mysteries and adventures. Entries from Kate&#8217;s commonplace book alternate with a deposition given by Cecelia (you&#8217;ll see, you&#8217;ll see) to make a lively narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been waiting for months for the library to acquire this book. It&#8217;s the sequel to Sorcery &#038; Cecelia, an epistolary novel that I absolutely loved. These books are a blend of historical fiction (set in 1817) and fantasy (magic\/wizardry in the British tradition), and they&#8217;re clever and exciting and oh, wonderful. In this one, [&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-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","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=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}