{"id":539,"date":"2007-09-21T21:34:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T21:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=539"},"modified":"2024-02-11T20:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:26:18","slug":"heyer_fridays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/09\/heyer_fridays\/","title":{"rendered":"Heyer, Georgette: <cite>Friday&#8217;s Child<\/cite> (radio play)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Either Georgette Heyer&#8217;s books don&#8217;t work well as radio plays, or <strong><cite>Friday&#8217;s Child<\/cite><\/strong> is not very good. Or, I suppose, both. But really, while I was listening to this marriage-of-convenience \/ lifelong-friend-with-hidden-love romance, all I could think was, &#8220;Good grief, they&#8217;re all idiots.&#8221; Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/03\/heyer_georgette_5.php\"><cite>The Unknown Ajax<\/cite><\/a> would be similarly frustrating out loud, but I think I won&#8217;t risk an audio adaptation of Heyer&#8217;s books again.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, actually, I had two other reactions. One was to twitch every time someone called the main female character &#8220;kitten&#8221;&mdash;talk about your diminutive nicknames. And the other was to wonder if I was supposed to think that they were having sex. Really, given their portrayals, either way the mind boggles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Either Georgette Heyer&#8217;s books don&#8217;t work well as radio plays, or Friday&#8217;s Child is not very good. Or, I suppose, both. But really, while I was listening to this marriage-of-convenience \/ lifelong-friend-with-hidden-love romance, all I could think was, &#8220;Good grief, they&#8217;re all idiots.&#8221; Maybe The Unknown Ajax would be similarly frustrating out loud, but I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/09\/heyer_fridays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heyer, Georgette: <cite>Friday&#8217;s Child<\/cite> (radio play)&#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":[111,12],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-plays","category-romance","tag-heyer-georgette"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}