{"id":2885,"date":"2021-12-31T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2021-12-31T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T14:23:14","slug":"for-whom-the-bell-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"For Whom the Bell Tolls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For Whom the Bell Tolls<\/em>, by Ernest Hemingway, 1939, Kindle Hemingway Library Edition, Simon and Schuster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book is our book club&#8217;s selection for January of 2022.  It was a difficult book for me to get into.  The first 200 pages or so were all discussion and conversation that I had a hard time relating to.  As the book progressed, however, I began to understand the characters better.  I only wish I knew a bit more about the Spanish Civil War so that I could better understand the background and conditions in which the book was written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had always thought that Hemingway was a master of keeping his prose compact, but in this book there are many details on each page that seem to drag out the story a bit much.  I must say that I&#8217;m glad I read all of it as it gives me a better picture of the author.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 stars\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway, 1939, Kindle Hemingway Library Edition, Simon and Schuster This book is our book club&#8217;s selection for January of 2022. It was a difficult book for me to get into. The first 200 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2885\"><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-2885","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\/2885","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=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}