{"id":2662,"date":"2016-01-29T13:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2016-03-27T06:54:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T10:54:27","slug":"2016-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/2016-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Katherine Snelson, January, 2016:<\/strong> \u00a0I have read the first three Ferrante books and started book four.\u00a0 After those many pages and hours, I would say it is not worth it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really care about any of those people and it took way too many pages to describe Naples and its transitions over decades.<br \/>\nIf you want good reads, try <strong>Dead Wake by Eric Larsen<\/strong>, <strong>The Boys in the Boat, Anything by Ross King, The Signature of all Things\u2026Being Mortal by Atul Gawande <\/strong>for examples.<\/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>From Katherine Snelson, January, 2016: \u00a0I have read the first three Ferrante books and started book four.\u00a0 After those many pages and hours, I would say it is not worth it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really care about any of those people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/2016-suggestions\/\">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-2662","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\/2662","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=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}