{"id":160,"date":"2013-06-20T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/?p=160"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:10:07","slug":"elly-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/elly-in-bloom","title":{"rendered":"Elly in Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/tag\/2-hearts-award\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/2hearts.gif\" alt=\"Elly in Bloom - Colleen Oakes - 2 hearts award\" align=\"right\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B009C3Z2WW\/lawless03-20\">Elly in Bloom<\/a>, by Colleen Oakes, is the floweriest book I&#8217;ve ever read. I know I&#8217;ve read other chick lit featuring florists, but this one describes flowers and bouquets and wedding arrangements in exquisite-verging-on-excruciating detail. It&#8217;s kind of fun, but it gets a bit tedious.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even more tedious is the main conflict, the &#8220;extravagant wedding contract&#8221; mentioned in the blurb, which I won&#8217;t spoil (though it&#8217;s not hard to figure out). I get that it&#8217;s a big, painful thing, but it just goes on and on, as do some of the subplots. All in all, I finished this one with a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elly in Bloom, by Colleen Oakes, is the floweriest book I&#8217;ve ever read. I know I&#8217;ve read other chick lit featuring florists, but this one describes flowers and bouquets and wedding arrangements in exquisite-verging-on-excruciating detail. It&#8217;s kind of fun, but it gets a bit tedious.<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"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":[41,27],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chick-lit-books","tag-2-hearts-award","tag-american-chick-lit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgrK2-2A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}