{"id":115,"date":"2007-07-08T23:17:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T03:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2007-12-14T23:47:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T03:47:35","slug":"unusual-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished <em>The Opposite of Fate<\/em> by Amy Tan. It&#8217;s unusual for me to read nonfiction. It&#8217;s even more unusual for me to read autobiographical nonfiction. For me to read autobiographical nonfiction by an author whose fiction I&#8217;ve never read is unheard of. Yet that&#8217;s what I did.<\/p>\n<p>Grade: A<\/p>\n<p><em>The Opposite of Fate<\/em> is an interesting look into the head of a modern American writer. Sure, she gets extra points just for singing in a band with Stephen King, but it was really the stories about her mother that won me over. I&#8217;m going to add <em>The Joy Luck Club<\/em> to the list of books that I need to read someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan. It&#8217;s unusual for me to read nonfiction. It&#8217;s even more unusual for me to read autobiographical nonfiction. For me to read autobiographical nonfiction by an author whose fiction I&#8217;ve never &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=115\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}