{"id":161,"date":"2011-08-05T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/club\/?p=161"},"modified":"2012-03-31T22:12:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T03:12:28","slug":"recommended-read-child-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/recommended-read-child-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Read: Child Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Jacobsen-childwonder1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-163\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Jacobsen-childwonder1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Jacobsen-childwonder1-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Jacobsen-childwonder1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>Child Wonder<\/em> by Roy Jacobsen awed me in so many ways.\u00a0 The voice of Finn, this child narrator, is odd and beautiful.\u00a0 His observations about his mother, his friends and extended family, the lodger that rents a room in their small apartment in Oslo, and the half-sister who shows up in their lives, leaves me breathless, wanting to read the words out loud to whomever may be nearby.\u00a0 And I did.\u00a0 Finn may be overly wise in his own ways, and yet he\u2019s still a child, and what he thinks he understands may not be true.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The story is sad and funny, sweet and upsetting.\u00a0 And the ending. . . well, let\u2019s say that the ending will pull at your heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child Wonder by Roy Jacobsen awed me in so many ways.\u00a0 The voice of Finn, this child narrator, is odd and beautiful.\u00a0 His observations about his mother, his friends and extended family, the lodger that rents a room in their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/recommended-read-child-wonder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}