{"id":11607,"date":"2017-12-09T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T16:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11607"},"modified":"2017-12-08T10:52:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T16:52:38","slug":"manhattan-beach-by-jennifer-egan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11607","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Manhattan Beach&#8221; by Jennifer Egan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manhattan-beach-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11609\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manhattan-beach-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manhattan-beach-cover.jpg 500w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manhattan-beach-cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manhattan-beach-cover-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manhattan-beach-cover-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.biz\/books\/Manhattan-Beach\/Jennifer-Egan\/9781442399990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manhattan Beach<\/a>\u00a0 by<a href=\"http:\/\/jenniferegan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Jennifer Egan<\/a> is quite a read. It is a novel set in the middle 1930&#8217;s through mid World War II about a girl Anna and her family who live in New York City. The book starts out a little quietly but builds to quite a story featuring Irish and Italian mobsters and associated treachery, learning how to be come a navy diver, U Boat attacks, double lives, hopelessness and redemption.\u00a0The book is about how complex people are and we don&#8217;t really fully understand others. I loved it and recommend it highly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan Beach\u00a0 by Jennifer Egan is quite a read. It is a novel set in the middle 1930&#8217;s through mid World War II about a girl Anna and her family who live in New York City. The book starts out a little quietly but builds to quite a story featuring Irish and Italian mobsters and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,1],"tags":[1324,2116,1140],"class_list":["post-11607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-jennifer-egan","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11610,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions\/11610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}