{"id":1419,"date":"2011-12-07T12:32:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T01:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2011-12-07T21:41:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T10:41:16","slug":"a-brief-history-of-montmaray-giveaway-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/a-brief-history-of-montmaray-giveaway-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Montmaray Giveaway Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to all those readers who let us know about <a href=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/a-brief-history-of-montmaray-book-giveaway\/#comments\">some of their favourite books<\/a>. <em>I Capture the Castle<\/em> by Dodie Smith was a particular favourite, although there were also a couple of fans of Steve Kluger\u2019s <em>My Most Excellent Year<\/em> (which sounded like <em>just<\/em> my kind of book, until I read that it involved baseball). I must also agree with Maddy&#8217;s description of the extreme creepiness of <em>The Owl Service<\/em> by Alan Garner. I haven&#8217;t felt the same about owls (or plates with flower designs, or Welsh farms, for that matter) since I read it. I have added a few new books to my To Read list, and am seized with a desire to re-read <em>Emil and the Detectives<\/em>, which I think I read about thirty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Skye, Con and Sonia, who each won a signed copy of <em>A Brief History of Montmaray<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to all those readers who let us know about some of their favourite books. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith was a particular favourite, although there were also a couple of fans of Steve Kluger\u2019s My Most Excellent Year (which sounded like just my kind of book, until I read that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/a-brief-history-of-montmaray-giveaway-winners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Brief History of Montmaray Giveaway Winners<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-the-montmaray-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}