{"id":3696,"date":"2010-11-06T07:02:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T12:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2010-11-06T07:11:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T12:11:23","slug":"31-bond-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/06\/31-bond-street\/","title":{"rendered":"31 Bond Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\" alt=\"31 Bond Street\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1270170082m\/7882036.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7882036-31-bond-street\">31 Bond Street<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/3156231.Ellen_Horan\">Ellen Horan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took me a little while to get get going with this book, but once I got &#8220;into&#8221; it, it was an engrossing read.  Mixing a historical event (a sensational murder in the late 1950s) with a fictionalized account of the motives behind the murder, I was left guessing up until the reveal as to what actually happened.  Being a New Yorker myself, and someone who loves anything to do with New York history, this was (theoretically) right up my alley.  My only criticism was that I would have loved to see a more expansive description of the atmosphere of the time &#8211; Addresses were given, and &#8220;famous&#8221; locations were mentioned, but there was not a lot of &#8220;painting the scene&#8221; of New York that I love so much in books like this.  But that&#8217;s a criticism that is personal to me, given my particular interest in the subject.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/4176347-samantha\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan It took me a little while to get get going with this book, but once I got &#8220;into&#8221; it, it was an engrossing read. Mixing a historical event (a sensational murder in the late 1950s) with a fictionalized account of the motives behind the murder, I was left guessing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4,14],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-new-york-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-XC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3699,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}