{"id":3112,"date":"2005-05-09T19:05:22","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T23:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=15"},"modified":"2005-05-09T19:05:22","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T23:05:22","slug":"times-magpie-a-walk-in-prague-by-myla-goldbergcrown-journeys-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/times-magpie-a-walk-in-prague-by-myla-goldbergcrown-journeys-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Time&#8217;s Magpie: A Walk in Prague by Myla GoldbergCrown Journeys, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the kind of book that&#8217;s perfect to read in one day, start to finish: on the subway to work, waiting for the elevator, over lunch, at home, before cleaning or having dinner or opening the mail. Small and lovely, well-chosen stories of a city, wonderfully accompanied by Ken Nash&#8217;s illustrations (perfectly drawn buildings, layered over old maps or handwritten text or collaged with bits from a Czech dictionary). Goldberg writes about the kinds of places I would like to visit: cemeteries, libraries, the astronomical tower, and her prose is always engaged, engaging, making me think or grin or laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the kind of book that&#8217;s perfect to read in one day, start to finish: on the subway to work, waiting for the elevator, over lunch, at home, before cleaning or having dinner or opening the mail. Small and lovely, well-chosen stories of a city, wonderfully accompanied by Ken Nash&#8217;s illustrations (perfectly drawn buildings, [&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-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","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=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}