{"id":9590,"date":"2014-07-24T17:42:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T00:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=9590"},"modified":"2014-07-24T19:02:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T02:02:10","slug":"my-favorite-things-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/my-favorite-things-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite things: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is my\u00a0fallow season for writing. Since I&#8217;m not doing well connecting sentences, the next few days I have decided to share lists of my favorite things, beginning with books. About 10 years ago I discovered that I enjoy reading history. Here are 5 of\u00a0my favorite works of history\/biography. Do you have some favorites not listed here?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Truman<\/em> by David McCullough (It&#8217;s so thorough. It was great.)<\/li>\n<li>John Adams by David McCullough (I have read this a couple of times I liked it so much. I like all of the letters to and from Abigail. It was a good study about Jefferson, too.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman<\/em>\u00a0by Robert K Massie (Fascinating! I have an affinity for Russian history and this was my favorite so far.)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Forgotten Man<\/em> by Amity Schlaes (Conservative author; scathing review of the failed policies and philosophies of Roosevelt and his cabinet during the Depression)<\/li>\n<li><em>A Day in Old Rome<\/em>\u00a0by William Stearns Davis (This made me want to visit Rome. Perhaps any book on Rome would have done it, though.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is my\u00a0fallow season for writing. Since I&#8217;m not doing well connecting sentences, the next few days I have decided to share lists of my favorite things, beginning with books. About 10 years ago I discovered that I enjoy reading history. Here are 5 of\u00a0my favorite works of history\/biography. Do you have some favorites not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/my-favorite-things-day-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite things: Day 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9602,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions\/9602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}