{"id":17,"date":"2008-07-03T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/?p=17"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:10:08","slug":"straight-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/straight-talking","title":{"rendered":"Straight Talking"},"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=\"Straight Talking - 2 hearts award\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Jane Green&#8217;s first book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0767915593\/lawless03-20\" target=\"_blank\">Straight Talking<\/a>, is not her best. Tasha is both shallow and selfish, and I couldn&#8217;t root for her no matter how hard I tried. At one point she found out something hurtful and I actually thought &#8220;serves you right!&#8221; (She said as much to herself, too, but that still wasn&#8217;t enough for me to forgive her.) Though I didn&#8217;t hate it, I didn&#8217;t like it either, and if it had been the first Jane Green book I read, I wouldn&#8217;t ever have picked up any of her others, most of which are great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Green&#8217;s first book, Straight Talking, is not her best. Tasha is both shallow and selfish, and I couldn&#8217;t root for her no matter how hard I tried. At one point she found out something hurtful and I actually thought &#8220;serves you right!&#8221; (She said as much to herself, too, but that still wasn&#8217;t enough [&hellip;]<\/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":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":[41,25,17],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chick-lit-books","tag-2-hearts-award","tag-english-chick-lit","tag-jane-green"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgrK2-h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","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=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}