{"id":545,"date":"2009-07-04T20:52:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T01:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2009-07-04T20:52:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T01:52:22","slug":"summer-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/jul\/05\/summer-reading-books-recommendations\">The Guardian<\/a>, a  list of the best summer reads of all times. I don&#8217;t know what constitutes a summer read.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read, and really liked, the first item on the list. So I was all prepared to go through the list, giving my opinions on all the ones I&#8217;d read. But, um, well, I DID go through the list, and I&#8217;d only read ONE other book. Which I didn&#8217;t much like.<\/p>\n<p>Here they are:<\/p>\n<p>The French Lieutenant&#8217;s Woman- John Fowles: This is the one I really liked.<\/p>\n<p>Tender is the Night &#8211; F Scott Fitzgerald: Through the process of elimination, I bet you can figure out that this is the one I didn&#8217;t like that much.<\/p>\n<p>So there ya go! My take on the Guardian&#8217;s list. Incidentally, I don&#8217;t really understand what they&#8217;ve done. It appears, though it can&#8217;t be so, that they&#8217;ve gotten several people to each recommend one book, then Simon Schama recommends the next three dozen or so.<\/p>\n<p>[Link from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/booksin140\">@booksin140<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian, a list of the best summer reads of all times. I don&#8217;t know what constitutes a summer read. I&#8217;ve read, and really liked, the first item on the list. So I was all prepared to go through the list, giving my opinions on all the ones I&#8217;d read. But, um, well, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languagelit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}