{"id":544,"date":"2008-01-07T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=544"},"modified":"2008-01-07T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T23:42:00","slug":"worth-continuing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/worth-continuing\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth continuing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=thewidblo-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0586053107&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/iframe>For a very long time now, my bed-side book has been Doris Lessing&#8217;s <i>Shikasta<\/i>, part of her <i>Canopus<\/i> series which she is said to rate highest of all her works.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;m finding it immensely boring, and I normally don&#8217;t manage more than five pages before getting too sleepy to continue. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Is it just me?  Is it worth reading on?  Will it get better if I just get past a certain point?  Or should I stop and pick a better book from our shelves?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a very long time now, my bed-side book has been Doris Lessing&#8217;s Shikasta, part of her Canopus series which she is said to rate highest of all her works. However, I&#8217;m finding it immensely boring, and I normally don&#8217;t manage more than five pages before getting too sleepy to continue. \ud83d\ude41 Is it just me? Is it worth reading on? Will it get better if I just get past a certain point? Or should I stop and pick a better book from our shelves?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}