{"id":14,"date":"2007-02-19T21:32:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T04:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/2007\/02\/19\/little-women\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T21:32:28","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T04:32:28","slug":"little-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/2007\/02\/19\/little-women\/","title":{"rendered":"little women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t read <em>Little Women<\/em> since I was young, and even now I&#8217;m not sure it wasn&#8217;t just some abridged version.\u00c2\u00a0 Either way, this reading has surprised me.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s odd how much you change as you age, as your perceptions change, adapt, are sometimes intensified, and sometimes corrupted with maturation.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, I&#8217;m having a rough time looking at this novel with an unbiased viewpoint because growing up the 1949 adaptation was one of my favorite movies.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t seen it in years, but even back then I noticed how different it was from the book, but I didn&#8217;t care and I formed my judgments from it.\u00c2\u00a0 It was weird imagining Liz Taylor as Amy, and now I can&#8217;t believe that it was June Allyson who played Jo and even crazier, Janet Leigh who played Amy.\u00c2\u00a0 I think this book is going to be very difficult for me to take for face-value, because I loved this film, felt like I found kindred spirit in Jo, so much so that I even tried to change my name to Jo while I was growing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t read Little Women since I was young, and even now I&#8217;m not sure it wasn&#8217;t just some abridged version.\u00c2\u00a0 Either way, this reading has surprised me.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s odd how much you change as you age, as your perceptions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/2007\/02\/19\/little-women\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}