{"id":3741,"date":"2012-12-08T01:23:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T01:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:56:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:56:56","slug":"room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3741","title":{"rendered":"Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Room-Emma-Donoghue\/dp\/0330519026\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/room-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"room\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/room-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/room-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/room.jpg 1529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I picked this book up last night and I could not stop reading it until I got to the climax which is, unusually, halfway through.  By that time it was 2.30am.  I finished it today in what seemed like no time at all.<\/p>\n<p>This book is very good indeed: original, urgent and convincing.  It&#8217;s obviously based on the Elisabeth Fritzl case but this tale is told through the eyes of a 5 year old boy who has grown up knowing nothing other than &#8216;Room&#8217;.  The book is not as horrific as the subject matter, in fact it has a rather positive message.  Recommended.<\/p>\n<p>(51st in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this book up last night and I could not stop reading it until I got to the climax which is, unusually, halfway through. By that time it was 2.30am. I finished it today in what seemed like no time at all. This book is very good indeed: original, urgent and convincing. It&#8217;s obviously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}