{"id":265,"date":"2007-07-08T19:18:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T01:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/2007\/07\/08\/i-was-hasty%e2%80%a6and-i%e2%80%99m-a-sucker-for-little-women-2\/"},"modified":"2007-07-08T19:18:39","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T01:18:39","slug":"i-was-hasty%e2%80%a6and-i%e2%80%99m-a-sucker-for-little-women-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/2007\/07\/08\/i-was-hasty%e2%80%a6and-i%e2%80%99m-a-sucker-for-little-women-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I was hasty\u2026and I\u2019m a sucker for Little Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a lot of thinking, er no, feeling, I&#8217;ve decided to take back what I said in class about Little Women.<br \/>\nI love it. It&#8217;s timeless and warm, comforting like an old country song.\u00a0 Upon finishing the book, I realized that I had spoken too soon.\u00a0 When I dished out my less than glowing opinion of the book, I was only at the tip of the iceberg (about page 150).\u00a0 Then I tumbled into it.\u00a0 Instead of going out Friday night, I stayed in and devoured it.<br \/>\nIt can be trite, idyllic and sometimes nauseatingly sweet like an episode of Leave it to Beaver, or Full House when the music starts to play at the end and someone has learned a lesson &#8212; but those things don&#8217;t make it any less wonderful than so many readers have discovered since its publication.\u00a0 When I finished the last page, I was 10 again (but [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Original post by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/cdame2of\/2007\/07\/08\/i-was-hastyand-im-a-sucker-for-little-women\/\" title=\"\">cdame2of<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lot of thinking, er no, feeling, I&#8217;ve decided to take back what I said in class about Little Women. I love it. It&#8217;s timeless and warm, comforting like an old country song.\u00a0 Upon finishing the book, I realized &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/2007\/07\/08\/i-was-hasty%e2%80%a6and-i%e2%80%99m-a-sucker-for-little-women-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}