{"id":263,"date":"2004-04-15T22:03:25","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T02:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=263"},"modified":"2004-04-15T22:03:25","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T02:03:25","slug":"heyer_georgette_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/04\/heyer_georgette_3\/","title":{"rendered":"Heyer, Georgette: Foundling, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"108208098454756355\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_108208098454756355\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday was the changeover to Daylight Saving Time, and after running some errands in the morning, I wanted nothing so much as to sleep. But as that would have been a terrible idea, I picked up <strong>Georgette Heyer&#8217;s <cite>The Foundling<\/cite><\/strong> as something undemanding, and it worked very well indeed to keep me awake and amused for the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be extremely lazy and refer you to <a href=\"http:\/\/home.mho.net\/trent.goulding\/books\/bl_may02.html#heyer2\"> Trent&#8217;s post<\/a> for a description, because I&#8217;m behind on booklogging and I couldn&#8217;t improve on his description. I didn&#8217;t like it <em>quite<\/em> as well as Trent; part of the romance element rubbed me the wrong way (this has romance in it, but isn&#8217;t a romance novel, unlike the other Heyer I&#8217;ve read), and I had the feeling, looking back on it, that the frothy lightness was precariously balanced and could have popped at any moment. However, it served its purpose very well, so I shouldn&#8217;t be too critical of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday was the changeover to Daylight Saving Time, and after running some errands in the morning, I wanted nothing so much as to sleep. But as that would have been a terrible idea, I picked up Georgette Heyer&#8217;s The Foundling as something undemanding, and it worked very well indeed to keep me awake and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/04\/heyer_georgette_3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heyer, Georgette: Foundling, The&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,12],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-romance","tag-heyer-georgette"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}