{"id":750,"date":"2019-05-25T14:24:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T14:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress_test\/?p=750"},"modified":"2019-05-25T14:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T14:24:39","slug":"the-mirror-and-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"The Mirror and the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-mirror-and-the-light\/hilary-mantel\/9780008366704\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/9780008366704.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-751\" width=\"187\" height=\"288\"\/><\/a><figcaption>The Mirror &amp; the Light by Hilary Mantel, pub. Harper &amp; Collins, March 5 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As one of those many waiting &#8211; at first patiently, and for a little while now not so &#8211; I note here the really excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/may\/22\/hilary-mantel-the-mirror-and-the-light-announced-for-2020\">news of the forthcoming publication<\/a>, in March 2020, of Hilary Mantel&#8217;s concluding book to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Could it be, I should return for another read of the preceding books &#8211; <em>Wolf Hall<\/em> and <em>Bring up the Bodies<\/em>?  I think so &#8211; there is time enough and Mantel&#8217;s Cromwell is so powerful, so agonisingly real I have to make reacquaintance with him and his journey so far before accompanying him to the demise he knows he deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of those many waiting &#8211; at first patiently, and for a little while now not so &#8211; I note here the really excellent news of the forthcoming publication, in March 2020, of Hilary Mantel&#8217;s concluding book to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Could it be, I should return for another read of the preceding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=750\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mirror and the Light&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-writers-2","tag-hilary-mantel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}