{"id":9,"date":"2008-06-21T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/?p=9"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:10:08","slug":"mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/mail","title":{"rendered":"Mail"},"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=\"Mail, by Mameve Medwed - 4 hearts award\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Mameve Medwed&#8217;s first novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0446673757\/lawless03-20\" target=\"_blank\">Mail<\/a>, is a great example of intelligent chick wit. The heroine spends her days writing short stories, sending them off in the hopes of publication, and dreaming about the mail man. It&#8217;s well-written and fairly funny, but I was a bit bothered by the class conflict &#8211; I just couldn&#8217;t relate to it. And at one point the word &#8220;classy&#8221; is used (or at least interpreted by the person being addressed) to mean &#8220;upper class&#8221; (i.e., rich), when what classy actually means is stylish or elegant. So <b>Mail<\/b> has some flaws, but overall it&#8217;s a fun read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mameve Medwed&#8217;s first novel, Mail, is a great example of intelligent chick wit. The heroine spends her days writing short stories, sending them off in the hopes of publication, and dreaming about the mail man. It&#8217;s well-written and fairly funny, but I was a bit bothered by the class conflict &#8211; I just couldn&#8217;t relate [&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_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":[30,27,31],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chick-lit-books","tag-4-hearts-award","tag-american-chick-lit","tag-mameve-medwed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sgrK2-mail","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}