{"id":110,"date":"2011-05-26T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/better-with-age\/"},"modified":"2011-05-26T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T14:54:00","slug":"better-with-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/better-with-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Better With Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the book clubs I&#8217;m in, we&#8217;re reading <em>Gone With the Wind<\/em> this month. I tried to read&nbsp;it in high school, and due to procrastination, I only made it about 800 pages. I almost wasn&#8217;t going to attempt to read the book again &#8211; I LOVE the movie and have seen it enough times to know the story and characters. <\/p>\n<p>However, I decided to give the book a second chance, and I&#8217;m glad I did. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m enjoying it more because it&#8217;s not an assignment this time or because I started well in advance of the book club deadline. Or maybe I appreciate the writing and storycrafting more because I&#8217;m writer&nbsp;too. Or maybe I like the book better because I&#8217;m older and wiser, with more life experience, than as a teen. Whatever the reason I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m giving this book another shot.<\/p>\n<p><em>What book(s) did you struggle reading as a teen, but now you enjoy as an&nbsp;adult? Or vice versa? What have you read recently that you surprisingly enjoyed?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the book clubs I&#8217;m in, we&#8217;re reading Gone With the Wind this month. I tried to read&nbsp;it in high school, and due to procrastination, I only made it about 800 pages. I almost wasn&#8217;t going to attempt to read the book again &#8211; I LOVE the movie and have seen it enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}