{"id":2051,"date":"2016-12-28T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2016-12-28T10:09:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:09:42","slug":"small-island-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"Small Island, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Andrea Levey, 2004, Picador Books, New York<\/p>\n<p>This book is about a man and a woman from Jamaica who married and then immigrated to England after WWII.\u00c2\u00a0 It highlights the degree of racism that existed in England and the difficulty these individuals had in adjusting to their new surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>The book wasn&#8217;t very interesting in the beginning but became more readable as I became more familiar with the characters.\u00c2\u00a0 The writing is pretty good and the story picked up once I was into it.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall, it was a pretty enjoyable read, but certainly not what I would categorize as a great book. <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 Andrea Levey, 2004, Picador Books, New York This book is about a man and a woman from Jamaica who married and then immigrated to England after WWII.\u00c2\u00a0 It highlights the degree of racism that existed in England and the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2051\"><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-2051","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\/2051","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=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}