{"id":1397,"date":"2013-05-20T21:21:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T03:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2015-05-31T12:21:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T18:21:34","slug":"wishin-and-hopin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"Wishin&#8217; and Hopin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Wally Lamb, 2009, performed by the author, HarperAudio<\/p>\n<p>This is a refreshing Christmas story about a ten-year-old kid in a parochial school in 1964.\u00c2\u00a0 The author does a great job in reading, particularly the accent of the Russian girl and her parents.\u00c2\u00a0There are some hilarious moments as they perform the Christmas program and the rest of the book is fairly humorous.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0All the\u00c2\u00a0characters were good and the story was enjoyable to listen to.\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"wp_editimgbtn\" title=\"3 1\/2 Stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3 1\/2 Stars\" width=\"64\" height=\"12\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Wally Lamb, 2009, performed by the author, HarperAudio This is a refreshing Christmas story about a ten-year-old kid in a parochial school in 1964.\u00c2\u00a0 The author does a great job in reading, particularly the accent of the Russian girl <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1397\"><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":[15,25],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","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=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}