{"id":1445,"date":"2010-03-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:08:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:08:59","slug":"amy-bloom-where-the-god-of-love-hangs-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"Amy Bloom &#8211; &#8220;Where the God of Love Hangs Out&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/amy-bloom-where-the-God-of-Love-hangs-out.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/amy-bloom-where-the-God-of-Love-hangs-out-195x300.jpg\" width=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Where the God of Love Hangs Out&#8221; is a collection of short stories by <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">Amy Bloom<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">. They are loosely related and tell the story of a family as time goes by. I love short stories and was looking forward to reading it. I didn&#8217;t really like it though. The problem is nothing much really happens. I&#8217;m not talking about action adventure type stuff with guns, bad guys, and sex. I&#8217;m saying that nothing happens. It&#8217;s like trying to move through molasses.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">I kept on reading though because I liked the characters. That ever happen to you where you don&#8217;t like reading the book but you keep doing it because you like the characters. But I just can&#8217;t go on any longer. That happens to me all the time. I&#8217;m not saying this is a badly written book. I&#8217;m just saying that it&#8217;s not my cup of tea.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">I love short stories but I&#8217;m glad this is a library book.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">So 1.5 stars out of 4. Sorry.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Where the God of Love Hangs Out&#8221; is a collection of short stories by Amy Bloom. They are loosely related and tell the story of a family as time goes by. I love short stories and was looking forward to reading it. I didn&#8217;t really like it though. The problem is nothing much really happens. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7370,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"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=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}