{"id":5914,"date":"2015-05-04T20:39:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T19:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2015-06-13T20:54:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:54:39","slug":"the-miniaturist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5914","title":{"rendered":"The Miniaturist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Miniaturist-Jessie-Burton-ebook\/dp\/B00HW7IPEW\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=&amp;qid=\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Miniaturist.jpg\" alt=\"Miniaturist\" width=\"223\" height=\"346\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5916\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My reading group leader Kay said that she would  be interested to know what I thought about this book.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing happens for thr first 152 pages so I almost gave up ir.  However, the language is alluring and the mysteries kept me hooked.  SPOILERS:  I guessed right from the start that Johannnes&#8217; husband was gay.  I was disappointed that the mystery of the miniaturist was not resolved in the end. <\/p>\n<p>I would recommend this book if you are interested in that period of history because it is very evocative, but not really otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My reading group leader Kay said that she would be interested to know what I thought about this book. Nothing happens for thr first 152 pages so I almost gave up ir. However, the language is alluring and the mysteries kept me hooked. SPOILERS: I guessed right from the start that Johannnes&#8217; husband was gay. [&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-5914","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\/5914","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=5914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5918,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions\/5918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}