{"id":1581,"date":"2014-04-19T13:57:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T19:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2015-04-27T14:49:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:49:57","slug":"the-language-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1581","title":{"rendered":"The Language of Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, read by Tara Sands, 2011, Random House Audio<\/p>\n<p>Not much to say about this book other than it was okay to listen to.\u00c2\u00a0 The plot was somewhat improbable and drawn out, the characters tolerable but not particularly interesting, and the theme of the book, flowers that have a language, was not credible.\u00c2\u00a0 I listened to this book on a trip from Naples to Narragansett over three days.\u00c2\u00a0 It got a bit tiresome, but I made it to the end.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think this book won&#8217;t find a place for itself in the annals of great world literature.<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"wp_delimgbtn\" 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>by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, read by Tara Sands, 2011, Random House Audio Not much to say about this book other than it was okay to listen to.\u00c2\u00a0 The plot was somewhat improbable and drawn out, the characters tolerable but not particularly <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1581\"><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-1581","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\/1581","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=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}