{"id":303,"date":"2014-06-02T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/?p=303"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:19:18","slug":"what-i-am-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"What I am reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Dungeness-Hut.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[303]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-137\" src=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Dungeness-Hut-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Dungeness-Hut\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Dungeness-Hut-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Dungeness-Hut.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought I might write about what I am reading but I cannot write reviews. This is not my forte. All I can write about is the sky and the birds and things falling. In fact, &#8216;The Sound of Things Falling&#8217; is the title of a book by Juan Gabriel Vasquez I read recently and a marvellous book it is although I will not say more than that it is set in Columbia during the notorious drugs wars and that it might be a book for you to read. Or you could read Rene Denfeld&#8217;s book, &#8216;The Enchanted&#8217; which is about a man on death row. Depressing, you might think. Indeed not. It is enchanted. Like\u00a0 an old fishing hut. This is what books are for. For us to\u00a0 journey to both nightmare and enchantment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I might write about what I am reading but I cannot write reviews. This is not my forte. All I can write about is the sky and the birds and things falling. In fact, &#8216;The Sound of Things Falling&#8217; is the title of a book by Juan Gabriel Vasquez I read recently and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/?p=303\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I am reading<\/span> <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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bronwengriff.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}