{"id":233,"date":"2011-03-13T03:23:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T03:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2011-03-13T03:23:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T03:23:48","slug":"the-yellow-room-mary-roberts-rinehart-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2011\/03\/the-yellow-room-mary-roberts-rinehart-1945\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Yellow Room<\/i> &#8211; Mary Roberts Rinehart, 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan and I both read and very much enjoyed the brilliantly funny <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CBUQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gutenberg.org%2Febooks%2F366&amp;ei=zyl8TZO2NOa-0QHQs8jWAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNEBppqWXlpqXrK4CtWfxQ8WItmYAg\">Bab, A Sub-Deb<\/a>; I enjoy classic mysteries; and I&#8217;d heard this one referred to enough that I figured it must be pretty good. Well, it was OK, but alas had none of the humor of Bab. I much prefer my mysteries leavened with witty dialogue, so I was disappointed by the straight-forwardness of this one, which didn&#8217;t have enough twistiness to hold my interest all the way through. C today, although it probably would have rated higher earlier in the genre&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan and I both read and very much enjoyed the brilliantly funny Bab, A Sub-Deb; I enjoy classic mysteries; and I&#8217;d heard this one referred to enough that I figured it must be pretty good. Well, it was OK, but alas had none of the humor of Bab. I much prefer my mysteries leavened with [&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-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}