{"id":1692,"date":"2015-01-24T19:52:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T01:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2015-03-24T19:55:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T01:55:36","slug":"the-daughters-of-mars-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"The Daughters of Mars: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Thomas Keneally, Audible Audio Edition narrated by Jane Nolan, \u00c2\u00a0Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd<\/p>\n<p>This book, about two sisters from Australia who were military nurses in WWI, was interesting as they were in a hospital ship that was sunk off the coast of Gallipoli.\u00c2\u00a0 We had just visited Gallipoli on our cruise in 2014 so the book tied in very well to our own experience.<\/p>\n<p>The two sisters are then reassigned to\u00c2\u00a0France.\u00c2\u00a0The later part of the book seems to focus more on their personal relationships than their war experiences which detracts somewhat from the book.\u00c2\u00a0 The ending of this book is very unusual.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Thomas Keneally, Audible Audio Edition narrated by Jane Nolan, \u00c2\u00a0Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd This book, about two sisters from Australia who were military nurses in WWI, was interesting as they were in a hospital ship that was sunk off <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1692\"><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":[15,19],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-historical-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","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=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}