{"id":357,"date":"2005-09-16T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-17T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=357"},"modified":"2005-09-16T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-17T00:32:00","slug":"peters_ellis_13_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/09\/peters_ellis_13_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Peters, Ellis: (13) The Rose Rent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"link_112691716796919124\" name=\"link_112691716796919124\"><\/a> <a id=\"112691716796919124\" name=\"112691716796919124\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong><cite>The Rose Rent<\/cite> is the thirteenth of Ellis Peters&#8217; Brother Cadfael novels<\/strong>, a quiet non-civil war story about a widow who&#8217;s gifted the house of her marriage to the abbey, in return for one rose a year from a bush on the property. A few days before the rent is due, a dead body is found near the hacked-at bush; and shortly thereafter, the widow herself disappears.<\/p>\n<p>The motives here are a little thin, but it&#8217;s vaguely amusing to have a mystery turn around the legal issue of a revocable gift. A leisurely and harmless way to pass a lunch time, though it would make me happy if there would be a Cadfael novel that didn&#8217;t end with a romantic pairing-off, because really, how many True Loves in potentia can there be out there, just waiting for a murder and Cadfael to bring them together?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rose Rent is the thirteenth of Ellis Peters&#8217; Brother Cadfael novels, a quiet non-civil war story about a widow who&#8217;s gifted the house of her marriage to the abbey, in return for one rose a year from a bush on the property. A few days before the rent is due, a dead body is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/09\/peters_ellis_13_1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peters, Ellis: (13) The Rose Rent&#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":[50,6],"tags":[344],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brother-cadfael","category-mystery","tag-peters-ellis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}