{"id":246,"date":"2011-03-25T01:27:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T01:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2011-03-25T01:27:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T01:27:41","slug":"in-spite-of-all-terror-hester-burton-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2011\/03\/in-spite-of-all-terror-hester-burton-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>In Spite of All Terror<\/i> &#8211; Hester Burton, 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage favorite I&#8217;ve read many times since. It brings WWII Britain to life for me like nothing else I&#8217;ve read, and experiencing 15-year-old Liz Hawtin&#8217;s ability to start fending for herself among strangers, with little to fall back on, always inspires me. Class divisions, career paths, family disappointment, the comforts of literature, even teenage pregnancy&#8211;it covers a lot. The bombing of London, which my own father lived through, is vivid, but what sticks with me even more is Ben Brereton and his grandfather joining in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_ships_of_Dunkirk\">little boats of Dunkirk<\/a> evacuation. I&#8217;ve tried some other titles by Burton, but they don&#8217;t hold a candle this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage favorite I&#8217;ve read many times since. It brings WWII Britain to life for me like nothing else I&#8217;ve read, and experiencing 15-year-old Liz Hawtin&#8217;s ability to start fending for herself among strangers, with little to fall back on, always inspires me. Class divisions, career paths, family disappointment, the comforts of literature, even teenage [&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-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}