{"id":57,"date":"2006-01-12T20:08:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T00:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=57"},"modified":"2006-01-12T20:08:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T00:08:26","slug":"marcovaldo-or-the-seasons-in-the-city-by-italo-calvinotranslated-by-william-weaverharcourt-brace-1983-originally-giulio-einaudi-editore-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/marcovaldo-or-the-seasons-in-the-city-by-italo-calvinotranslated-by-william-weaverharcourt-brace-1983-originally-giulio-einaudi-editore-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcovaldo or The seasons in the city by Italo CalvinoTranslated by William WeaverHarcourt Brace, 1983 (originally Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1963)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every chapter of this book (the chapters rotate through the seasons, starting with spring and ending in winter) made me smile: each one was just as lovely as the last. Italy in the early &#8217;50s, Italy in the mid &#8217;60s: factory work, a polluted river, kids who ask their father, &#8220;Are cows like trams?&#8221; Marcovaldo and his family, poor and always getting into trouble but laughing everything off. I can&#8217;t explain the joy and wonder of this book, because to describe the stories &#038; their ironies would be to say too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every chapter of this book (the chapters rotate through the seasons, starting with spring and ending in winter) made me smile: each one was just as lovely as the last. Italy in the early &#8217;50s, Italy in the mid &#8217;60s: factory work, a polluted river, kids who ask their father, &#8220;Are cows like trams?&#8221; Marcovaldo [&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-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}