{"id":70,"date":"2006-03-14T19:37:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T23:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=70"},"modified":"2006-03-14T19:37:28","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T23:37:28","slug":"lighthousekeeping-by-jeanette-wintersonharcourt-2004-originally-fourth-estate-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/lighthousekeeping-by-jeanette-wintersonharcourt-2004-originally-fourth-estate-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette WintersonHarcourt, 2004 (originally Fourth Estate, 2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book full of wind and sea and salt. Silver, an orphan, is apprenticed to a lighthousekeeper to learn the trade, but of course, this being Jeanette Winterson, that&#8217;s only one of this book&#8217;s many stories. (There are always many stories, stories to hear and stories to tell.) There&#8217;s the story of Babel Dark, or rather, the stories of Babel Dark, a mysterious minister who lived in Silver&#8217;s town in the 1800s, and there&#8217;s Silver&#8217;s story, or rather, Silver&#8217;s stories, and there&#8217;s love, of course, and connection and literature and solidity and flight (rocks and wings). I appreciated this book more upon re-reading it, the cadences and phrases of it: it&#8217;s gorgeous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book full of wind and sea and salt. Silver, an orphan, is apprenticed to a lighthousekeeper to learn the trade, but of course, this being Jeanette Winterson, that&#8217;s only one of this book&#8217;s many stories. (There are always many stories, stories to hear and stories to tell.) There&#8217;s the story of Babel Dark, or [&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-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}