{"id":13834,"date":"2018-02-03T13:51:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=13834"},"modified":"2018-02-04T11:02:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T16:02:53","slug":"another-haunted-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=13834","title":{"rendered":"Another Haunted House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Here I Stay<\/em> by Barbara Michaels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A thirty-something woman named Andrea is in a bad financial situation after her teenage brother Jim (whom she has raised) has a terrible, life-altering car crash. What a fortuitous time to inherit an old house in Maryland. She decides to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast. The house is . . . (you guessed it!) haunted, and there will be dire consequences for her, her brother, and the friends they have made in their new hometown.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here I Stay <\/em>was almost good. The characters were generally likeable (though Andrea fretted far too much over her brother). There was a mysterious cat named Satan, who looked exactly like the former cat of the house, Beelzebub. I love mysterious cats! The problem was simply that so little happened during most of the book that I was yawning by the time something finally did happen. I also didn&#8217;t like the ending.<\/p>\n<p>Favorite quote from the book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m interested in practically everything. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m always behind schedule. (spoken by Martin, a long-term boarder at the bed-and-breakfast)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next up in my binge is <em>Wait for What Will Come.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I Stay by Barbara Michaels Grade: C+ A thirty-something woman named Andrea is in a bad financial situation after her teenage brother Jim (whom she has raised) has a terrible, life-altering car crash. What a fortuitous time to inherit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=13834\">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\/13834"}],"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=13834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13880,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834\/revisions\/13880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}