{"id":7348,"date":"2013-03-25T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2013-03-24T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T16:17:28","slug":"sweet-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=7348","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Heidi<\/em> by Johanna Spyri (translated by Eileen Hall)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Grade: A-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Heidi\u00a0<\/em>is a wonderful story about a young girl who lives in the mountains with her grandfather and who brings cheer into the hearts of everyone she meets. It&#8217;s one of those saccharine stories, like <em>Pollyanna<\/em>, that ought to nauseate and somehow hits the spot instead.<\/p>\n<p>One small problem with <em>Heidi<\/em> is that it&#8217;s a translation (German to English). With translations you never know if you&#8217;re going to get a good one or a bad one. The version I read was translated by Eileen Hall. It was enjoyable, but I wonder how other translations compare. Maybe there&#8217;s a better one?<\/p>\n<p>A second small problem is that, if you are not a Christian, the emphasis on religion could be off-putting. It doesn&#8217;t bother me to read about characters with religious beliefs, but I do start to get irritated when a book gets preachy. <em>Heidi<\/em> teetered on the edge, getting close to preachy at times, but never becoming intolerable. Anyway, religion is par for the course in classic children&#8217;s literature. That&#8217;s just the way it is (or was).<\/p>\n<p>All things considered, <em>Heidi<\/em> is a sweet read and I recommend it. If I am able to find more information about other English translations, I&#8217;ll append it to this post later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heidi by Johanna Spyri (translated by Eileen Hall) Grade: A- Heidi\u00a0is a wonderful story about a young girl who lives in the mountains with her grandfather and who brings cheer into the hearts of everyone she meets. It&#8217;s one of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=7348\">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\/7348"}],"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=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7357,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions\/7357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}