{"id":137,"date":"2004-03-11T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2004-03-11T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-11T12:57:00","slug":"the-secret-life-of-bees-by-sue-monk-kidd-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2004\/03\/the-secret-life-of-bees-by-sue-monk-kidd-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, 2002."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have told me how good this novel is, but the clincher was my memory of the elderly beekeeper, a dignified, reserved man, who told me that it made him cry. Yes, it is a very, very good book, although not one of my favorites ever. It didn&#8217;t grab me as hard as some books can&#8211;too feminine? too Southern? too predictable? I don&#8217;t know. Maybe it&#8217;s my own mother issues, since the major theme is maternal loss and betrayal. And the magic of bees&#8230;that is well-done, though I preferred <i>Beeing: Life, Motherhood, and 180,000 Honeybees<\/i> by Rosanne Thomas. Too bad the illustration on the cover looks more like a wasp. I <b>hate it<\/b> when people call wasps bees. Even if I do understand, as an adult, how easy it is to make that mistake and how most people just don&#8217;t really care&#8211;it buzzes, it&#8217;s yellow and black, it&#8217;s a &#8220;bee&#8221;&#8211;it still drives me crazy because I feel that the poor bees are getting a bad rep!<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside&#8230;. You don&#8217;t have to put your hand on Mary&#8217;s heart to get strength and consolation and resuce, and all the other things we need to get through life,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You can place it right here on your own heart. <i>Your own heart.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have told me how good this novel is, but the clincher was my memory of the elderly beekeeper, a dignified, reserved man, who told me that it made him cry. Yes, it is a very, very good book, although not one of my favorites ever. It didn&#8217;t grab me as hard as some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}