{"id":1604,"date":"2010-01-18T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2010-01-23T10:56:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T15:56:18","slug":"the-marplethon-moves-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"The Marplethon Moves On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The Mousetrap<\/em> (a.k.a. <em>Three Blind Mice and Other Stories<\/em>) by Agatha Christie<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Grade: A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this collection of short stories by Agatha Christie. She had a good sense of humor and I agreed wholeheartedly with the character named Giles in the story &#8220;Three Blind Mice&#8221; when he said, &#8220;The trouble is that practically everything one does nowadays is illegal.&#8221; Ha-ha. In addition to that story, there are four Marples (&#8220;Strange Jest,&#8221; &#8220;Tape-Measure Murder,&#8221; &#8220;The Case of the Perfect Maid,&#8221; &#8220;The Case of the Caretaker.&#8221;), three Poirots (&#8220;The Third-Floor Flat,&#8221; &#8220;The Adventure of Johnny Waverly,&#8221; &#8220;Four and Twenty Blackbirds&#8221;) and one tale featuring a lesser-known character named Harley Quin (&#8220;The Love Detectives&#8221;). The short-story format works well for the genre and also makes for easy reading. I&#8217;m even half tempted to keep this book. Perhaps I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mousetrap (a.k.a. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories) by Agatha Christie Grade: A I enjoyed this collection of short stories by Agatha Christie. She had a good sense of humor and I agreed wholeheartedly with the character named Giles &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=1604\">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":[185,3],"tags":[82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604"}],"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=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}