{"id":297,"date":"2013-06-22T21:45:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T01:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/?p=297"},"modified":"2013-06-22T21:45:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T01:45:01","slug":"just-finished-cold-comfort-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/22\/just-finished-cold-comfort-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Just finished: Cold Comfort Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my! This was an excellent and deliciously satirical read. Why this poor book (and its author, Stella Gibbons) is not more widely known beggars belief. Cold Comfort Farm is a masterpiece of skewering the horrible cliches of English literature based in the &#8220;country-pastoral&#8221; genre (think Thomas Hardy&#8217;s <em>The Trumpet Major<\/em>). And the ending is, in my opinion, just as satirical of the &#8220;good old&#8221; Hollywood movie endings of the time period (mid-1930s). I highly recommend the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my! This was an excellent and deliciously satirical read. Why this poor book (and its author, Stella Gibbons) is not more widely known beggars belief. Cold Comfort Farm is a masterpiece of skewering the horrible cliches of English literature based in the &#8220;country-pastoral&#8221; genre (think Thomas Hardy&#8217;s The Trumpet Major). And the ending is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[41,14],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-cold-comfort-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}