{"id":13,"date":"2008-06-25T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/?p=13"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:10:08","slug":"living-dangerously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/living-dangerously","title":{"rendered":"Living Dangerously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/tag\/3-hearts-award\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/3hearts.gif\" alt=\"Living Dangerously - 3 hearts award\" align=\"right\"><\/a>I really liked parts of Katie Fforde&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099446650\/lawless03-20\" target=\"_blank\">Living Dangerously<\/a>, and because of that I&#8217;ve read it several times. Polly, the protagonist, is 35 and happy to live on her own. She seems like a perfectly pleasant person. However, the implausability of it all eventually gets to me.<\/p>\n<p>SPOILERS <!--more-->She is described as being somewhat plain, yet she is actively pursued by two completely different but extremely eligible men, and two others also express interest in her. I just don&#8217;t buy it. I believe in not judging a book by its cover, etc., but I just don&#8217;t believe that an average-sounding woman in her mid-30s would have 4 men slobbering over her. And that&#8217;s what ruins this book for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really liked parts of Katie Fforde&#8217;s Living Dangerously, and because of that I&#8217;ve read it several times. Polly, the protagonist, is 35 and happy to live on her own. She seems like a perfectly pleasant person. However, the implausability of it all eventually gets to me. SPOILERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[38,25,37],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chick-lit-books","tag-3-hearts-award","tag-english-chick-lit","tag-katie-fforde"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgrK2-d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}