{"id":23009,"date":"2024-02-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23009"},"modified":"2024-02-18T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T20:35:17","slug":"practically-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23009","title":{"rendered":"Practically Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Where the Mountain Meets the Moon<\/em> by Grace Lin, A+<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plot: Young Minli runs away from home to find the Old Man of the Moon so that she can ask him how to change her family&#8217;s fortune for the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My impression: The narrative is beautifully structured&#8211;a series of stories within stories&#8211;and utterly charming. The only thing that bothered me a tiny bit while reading was not knowing if the stories were traditional or made up by the author. But, at the end, there is an &#8220;Behind the Story&#8221; chapter in which the author answered that very question! There may be no such thing as a perfect book, but <em>Where the Mountain Meets the Moon<\/em> comes as close as to make no difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin, A+ The plot: Young Minli runs away from home to find the Old Man of the Moon so that she can ask him how to change her family&#8217;s fortune for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23009\">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\/23009"}],"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=23009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23010,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009\/revisions\/23010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}