{"id":1360,"date":"2013-03-15T19:51:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T01:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2015-05-31T12:37:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T18:37:59","slug":"persuasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"Persuasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Persuasion<\/em>, by Jane Austen, originally published posthumously in 1818, audiobook, 2001,\u00c2\u00a0read by Flo Gibson, Recorded Books, LLC, Prince Frederick, MD I guess I just didn&#8217;t get this book.\u00c2\u00a0 To me it was a redefinition of the word, &#8220;dithering.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The heroine, Ann Elliott, is in love with a naval officer, Captain Wentworth, and wants to marry him.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, a family friend intervenes and puts the kibosh on the marriage.\u00c2\u00a0 She encounters Captain Wentworth seven years later and, after many chapters of not much happening, he expresses his love of her again.\u00c2\u00a0 They become happily engaged.\u00c2\u00a0 End of story. This book doesn&#8217;t seem to create the same level of tension between two would-be lovers that <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em> does.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I suspect that Jane Austen was failing in her later years to come up with something fresh and original.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t feel that she accomplished that in this, her last, novel.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-0.gif\" alt=\"2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persuasion, by Jane Austen, originally published posthumously in 1818, audiobook, 2001,\u00c2\u00a0read by Flo Gibson, Recorded Books, LLC, Prince Frederick, MD I guess I just didn&#8217;t get this book.\u00c2\u00a0 To me it was a redefinition of the word, &#8220;dithering.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The heroine, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1360\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}