{"id":18628,"date":"2020-10-06T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18628"},"modified":"2020-10-07T12:31:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T16:31:51","slug":"day-207-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18628","title":{"rendered":"Day 207: Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started my new book, <em>The Constant Rabbit<\/em> by Jasper Fforde, yesterday. Today I put it aside in favor of a different book. Why? Because it was too political. Just a few pages in, Fforde was already tackling issues of conservatism, xenophobia, and racism. We already have too much of that in our real lives. I turn to fiction to escape it, not wallow in it. I&#8217;ve enjoyed most of Fforde&#8217;s previous books, and it&#8217;s likely that I&#8217;ll enjoy this one, too. Just not today. It&#8217;s too much on the nose for me today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started my new book, The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde, yesterday. Today I put it aside in favor of a different book. Why? Because it was too political. Just a few pages in, Fforde was already tackling issues of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18628\">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":[607,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18628"}],"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=18628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18630,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18628\/revisions\/18630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}