{"id":450,"date":"2004-01-03T12:59:02","date_gmt":"2004-01-03T19:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2004-01-03T12:59:02","modified_gmt":"2004-01-03T19:59:02","slug":"anna-karenina-by-leo-tolstoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2004\/01\/anna-karenina-by-leo-tolstoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book was wonderful. Top to bottom, all 811 pages of it. I was only disappointed by it being over.<\/p>\n<p>Russian stories don&#8217;t distance you from the people in them. I heard someone criticize them once for never using two-dimensional characters. Oh, man, no way! I love getting to know all those people in the books. It feels like I got to know a huge set of very interesting people. Anna, Karenin, Levin and Kitty were the main heroes, but everyone had their foibles and their adventures.<\/p>\n<p>I loved the story, and I loved how Tolstoy told it. Basically, Anna Karenina falls in love with Vronsky, one of those fairy tale loves. Only problem is, she is already married. And she has a baby boy.<\/p>\n<p>It was so great. to hear all the perspectives about the situation of women, and how faith comes into play with such a choice.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish I could have really known these people Such smart, earnest interesting people.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, I only wished it had lasted longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book was wonderful. Top to bottom, all 811 pages of it. I was only disappointed by it being over. Russian stories don&#8217;t distance you from the people in them. I heard someone criticize them once for never using two-dimensional &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2004\/01\/anna-karenina-by-leo-tolstoy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2004\/01\/anna-karenina-by-leo-tolstoy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}