{"id":1173,"date":"2012-04-09T10:52:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2016-08-08T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T04:43:07","slug":"noteworthy-link-classic-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/noteworthy-link-classic-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Noteworthy Link \u2013 Classic Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-760\" style=\"margin: 0pt 30px 30px 0px;\" title=\"Noteworthy Link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BigPen-e1319390242444.gif\" alt=\"Noteworthy Link\" width=\"150\" height=\"189\" \/><br \/>\nWhen I saw the <a title=\"Classic Book Club\" href=\"http:\/\/www.classicbookclub.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Classic Book Club<\/a> site my first thought was, &#8220;Why haven&#8217;t I heard about this before?&#8221;\u00a0 My second thought was, &#8220;What a great idea for a site.\u00a0 I wish I would have thought of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The site is filled with book reviews.\u00a0 The reviews aren&#8217;t scholarly.\u00a0 Instead they&#8217;re the opinions of someone reading the stories for pleasure.\u00a0 Did they like it?\u00a0 What part of the novel appealed to them?\u00a0 I found it refreshing to find other people who think that classic literature can be fun to read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the Classic Book Club site my first thought was, &#8220;Why haven&#8217;t I heard about this before?&#8221;\u00a0 My second thought was, &#8220;What a great idea for a site.\u00a0 I wish I would have thought of it.&#8221; The site <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noteworthy-links"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}