{"id":2404,"date":"2011-10-13T07:20:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T12:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2020-01-03T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T04:35:00","slug":"booking-through-thursdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/booking-through-thursdays\/","title":{"rendered":"Booking Through Thursdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/btt2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2405 alignright\" title=\"btt2\" src=\"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/btt2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"34\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Booking Through Thursdays\" href=\"http:\/\/btt2.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This week&#8217;s question i<\/a>s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you could get a sequel for any book, what would it be?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right now?<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/37wXAA7\"><em> Portrait of a Lady by Henry James,<\/em><\/a> for three reasons.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I enjoyed the book and would love to be able to re-enter its world.<\/li>\n<li>James created a character that I <em>like<\/em>, then closed the novel with an ambiguous ending. I want to know if Isabella leaves Gilbert! And for that matter, what happens to poor Pansy?<\/li>\n<li>Since\u00a0 no sequel exists, for one to suddenly appear would require one of two things: either a dead author would need to come back to life; or he would need to otherwise project his consciousness into physical reality. And either scenario would have quite intriguing metaphysical implications :-D<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s question is: If you could get a sequel for any book, what would it be? Right now? Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, for three reasons. I enjoyed the book and would love to be able to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/booking-through-thursdays\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[311,1709,1708],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-writing","tag-booking-through-thursdays","tag-henry-james","tag-portrait-of-a-lady"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6445,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/6445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}