{"id":58,"date":"2007-02-28T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2007-02-28T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T21:34:00","slug":"the-sisters-the-saga-of-the-mitford-family-by-mary-s-lovell-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2007\/02\/the-sisters-the-saga-of-the-mitford-family-by-mary-s-lovell-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family &#8211; by Mary S. Lovell. 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Mitford is one of my perennial favorites, especially <em>The Blessing,<\/em> which I first read as a teenager and still consider one of the funniest novels ever. I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Jessica Mitford, the other sister famous for writing, but Nancy&#8217;s autobiographical novels (<em>Love in a Cold Climate<\/em> and <em>The Pursuit of Love<\/em>) make the family fascinating. I very much enjoyed this group biography, but alas, I read it early in 2006 (or even 2005?) and now no longer remember much of it. I had marked two amusing passages, though:<\/p>\n<p>Nancy told of asking her nephew Stoker, when he was two and a half, &#8220;&#8216;Can you talk?&#8217; He answered, &#8216;Not yet.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bob Treuhaft (Jessica&#8217;s American husband) was baffled by a telephone operator in England and handed the phone to his wife.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What is the matter?&#8221; [Jessica] asked him. &#8220;She&#8217;s saying perfectly plainly that the number is Steeple Bumstead 267.&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s what I thought she said,&#8221; Bob answered miserably, &#8220;but I thought she was pulling my leg.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Mitford is one of my perennial favorites, especially The Blessing, which I first read as a teenager and still consider one of the funniest novels ever. I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Jessica Mitford, the other sister famous for writing, but Nancy&#8217;s autobiographical novels (Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love) [&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-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}