{"id":60,"date":"2006-02-06T20:55:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T00:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=60"},"modified":"2006-02-06T20:55:24","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T00:55:24","slug":"are-we-there-yet-by-david-levithanknopf-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/are-we-there-yet-by-david-levithanknopf-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We There Yet? by David LevithanKnopf, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Levithan&#8217;s books always delight me so much: I love the sense of play that both he and his characters have: the word play (two kids driving down I-95 and &#8220;speaking Connecticut&#8221; to one another, &#8220;What&#8217;s Groton into you?&#8221; etc), the quirks, the charm. In this book, two brothers travel in Italy together, and learn that growing up doesn&#8217;t have to mean growing farther and farther apart. I love the chance encounters of this book, the different ways of traveling: the tension between having plans and not having plans, the serendipity of little shops and restaurants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Levithan&#8217;s books always delight me so much: I love the sense of play that both he and his characters have: the word play (two kids driving down I-95 and &#8220;speaking Connecticut&#8221; to one another, &#8220;What&#8217;s Groton into you?&#8221; etc), the quirks, the charm. In this book, two brothers travel in Italy together, and learn [&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-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}