{"id":12377,"date":"2024-01-11T15:57:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T20:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosterlibraries.org\/?p=12377"},"modified":"2024-01-11T15:57:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T20:57:37","slug":"horse-by-geraldine-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/?p=12377","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Horse&#8221; by Geraldine Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hilary recommends<\/strong>: <em>Horse <\/em>by Geraldine Brooks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Historical fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reading Level<\/strong>: Adult <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong> Based on a true story, \u201cHorse\u201d weaves together the people and events surrounding a racehorse through more than a century and a half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hilary says: <\/strong>This book is beautifully written, and each portion of the story, from slavery on southern plantations and the Civil War, through the New York art world of the 1950\u2019s and the scientists and conservators working at the modern day Smithsonian, is both informative and at times heartbreaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81Kc9t8XGWL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon.com: Horse: A Novel: 9780399562969: Brooks, Geraldine: Books\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a true story, \u201cHorse\u201d weaves together the people and events surrounding a racehorse through more than a century and a half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_recurring":false,"_piecal_recurring_interval":1,"_piecal_recurring_frequency":"","_piecal_recurring_exact_position":false,"_piecal_recurring_end":"","_piecal_color":"","_piecal_text_color":"","_piecal_global_color_master":false,"_piecal_rsets":"[]","_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14,27,38],"class_list":["post-12377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patron-recs","tag-adult","tag-historical-fiction","tag-patron-recs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fostercommunitylibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}