{"id":1759,"date":"2014-02-10T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2014-09-12T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T14:38:16","slug":"still-life-with-bread-crumbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/still-life-with-bread-crumbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Life with Bread Crumbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>submitted by Mary Lynn McCaffrey: \u00a0The heroine of \u00a0Anna Quindlen&#8217;s new best-seller, <em><strong>Still Life With Bread Crumbs\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(#5 on last week&#8217;s NYT list), is a Mount Holyoke graduate, a fact mentioned several times in the novel. \u00a0<strong>Still Life With Bread Crumbs<\/strong>\u00a0is a reference to our MHC heroine&#8217;s early success with her photographs of domestic scenes.\u00a0 NPR called the book &#8220;the literary equivalent of comfort food&#8221; but it&#8217;s charming and easily digested, if a touch unrealistic &#8211; ( how is it so many middle-aged women move to \u00a0remote villages populated primarily with hunky carpenters?) \u00a0All-in-all, a good book to get us through winter doldrums which we&#8217;ve had too much of in North Jersey! \u00a0My Irish father always claimed St. Patrick&#8217;s Day as the first day of Spring &#8211; may it be so for all of us.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>submitted by Mary Lynn McCaffrey: \u00a0The heroine of \u00a0Anna Quindlen&#8217;s new best-seller, Still Life With Bread Crumbs\u00a0(#5 on last week&#8217;s NYT list), is a Mount Holyoke graduate, a fact mentioned several times in the novel. \u00a0Still Life With Bread Crumbs\u00a0is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/still-life-with-bread-crumbs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-reads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}