{"id":24,"date":"2008-07-19T09:56:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T07:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/?p=24"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:10:08","slug":"edge-of-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/edge-of-reason","title":{"rendered":"The Edge of Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/tag\/4-hearts-award\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/4hearts.gif\" alt=\"The Edge of Reason - 4 hearts award\" align=\"right\"><\/a>The second (and final) Bridget Jones book, Helen Fielding&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140298479\/lawless03-20\" target=\"_blank\">The Edge of Reason<\/a>, isn&#8217;t as good as the first, but it&#8217;s definitely worth a read or five. The timing is off in places (e.g., Magda&#8217;s pregnancy\/new baby in the two books) and some of the situations are a little too outrageous, but all in all it&#8217;s fun and funny, and there are couple of truly touching moments, which surprised me a little (in a good way).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second (and final) Bridget Jones book, Helen Fielding&#8217;s The Edge of Reason, isn&#8217;t as good as the first, but it&#8217;s definitely worth a read or five. The timing is off in places (e.g., Magda&#8217;s pregnancy\/new baby in the two books) and some of the situations are a little too outrageous, but all in all [&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":[30,10,25,49],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chick-lit-books","tag-4-hearts-award","tag-bridget-jones","tag-english-chick-lit","tag-helenfielding"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgrK2-o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","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=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}