{"id":1800,"date":"2014-05-18T09:31:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T13:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2014-05-18T09:31:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T13:31:02","slug":"sunday-18-may-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/05\/18\/sunday-18-may-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 18 May 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:25 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I just finished reading Alan Bradley&#8217;s latest Flavia de Luce mystery, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Dead-Their-Vaulted-Arches\/dp\/0385344058\/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0\">The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches<\/a>. It&#8217;s as good or better than the earlier titles in the series, which is to say top-notch.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Flavia lives, with her father and two older sisters, in a stately old country home that is gradually rotting away because of the family&#8217;s reduced circumstances. Flavia, age 11 (almost 12), is a budding scientist who adores chemistry and uses her knowledge of chemistry to solve crimes. She&#8217;s fortunate enough to have &#8220;inherited&#8221; her late uncle Tarquin&#8217;s fully-equipped laboratory and makes the most of it, running investigations based on the state of chemistry, biology, and forensic science at the time.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:25 &#8211; I just finished reading Alan Bradley&#8217;s latest Flavia de Luce mystery, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Dead-Their-Vaulted-Arches\/dp\/0385344058\/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0\">The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches<\/a>. It&#8217;s as good or better than the earlier titles in the series, which is to say top-notch.\n<\/p>\n<p>Flavia lives, with her father and two older sisters, in a stately old country home that is gradually rotting away because of the family&#8217;s reduced circumstances. Flavia, age 11 (almost 12), is a budding scientist who adores chemistry and uses her knowledge of chemistry to solve crimes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/05\/18\/sunday-18-may-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sunday, 18 May 2014 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}