{"id":2502,"date":"2016-08-24T10:21:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T10:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2016-08-24T10:23:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T10:23:09","slug":"book-log-34-the-house-on-mango-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2502","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #33: The House on Mango Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The House on Mango Street<\/em> by Sandra Cisneros [Little Shop of Stories, $11.00]<\/p>\n<p>My son&#8217;s 8th grade reading list may prove a fruitful ground for good books.  This is a riveting short collection of vignettes about the coming of age of a young hispanic girl.  File it under less is more, the author manages to pack a lot of meaning in a page and a half.  Both whimsical and touching, this book makes for a nice evening&#8217;s read.<\/p>\n<p>And now I can talk intelligently with my son about his homework.<\/p>\n<p>Week 34<br \/>\nBook 33<br \/>\nHaving squandered by big lead from the beginning of the year, we have now fallen below the 1:1 parity of books:weeks.  No more <em>Bleak House<\/em> sized books for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros [Little Shop of Stories, $11.00] My son&#8217;s 8th grade reading list may prove a fruitful ground for good books. This is a riveting short collection of vignettes about the coming of age &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2502\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513,511],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","category-little-shop-of-stories","tag-book-log-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}