{"id":9771,"date":"2016-01-10T08:55:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T13:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=9771"},"modified":"2016-01-10T08:55:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T13:55:19","slug":"symphony-for-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=9771","title":{"rendered":"Symphony for the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished MT Anderson&#8217;s &#8220;Symphony for the Dead&#8221; a couple of days ago.  Anderson is a writer of children&#8217;s books and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/nba2015_ypl_anderson.html#.VpJhDRUrKhc\" target=\"_blank\">this work<\/a> was on the Long List for the 2015 National Book Award for young people&#8217;s literature.<\/p><p>Apparently that means the book is age-appropriate for 12-18 year olds.  The fact that I found it engaging and well-written perhaps says something about my mental capacity at age almost-70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished MT Anderson&#8217;s &#8220;Symphony for the Dead&#8221; a couple of days ago. Anderson is a writer of children&#8217;s books and this work was on the Long List for the 2015 National Book Award for young people&#8217;s literature.Apparently that means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=9771\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9773,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions\/9773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}