{"id":1858,"date":"2016-09-30T22:40:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T02:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2021-06-07T19:01:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T23:01:40","slug":"1858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1858","title":{"rendered":"Review &#8211; Mists of Avalon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/402045.The_Mists_of_Avalon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net\/books\/1388857089m\/402045.jpg\" alt=\"The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/402045.The_Mists_of_Avalon\">The Mists of Avalon<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4841825.Marion_Zimmer_Bradley\">Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/17626075\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a big read. The story of the time of King Arthur, as told from the point of view of the women of the time. It&#8217;s a familiar tale, but told with more depth and dimension than I&#8217;d experienced in any earlier telling.<\/p>\n<p>There are cycles in the book in which I want to strangle pretty much every single character, but they are far and few between. If you&#8217;re interested in Arthurian legends, druids, pagans, post-Roman Christianity, and\/or long form fiction, I recommend this book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/988608-david\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a big read. The story of the time of King Arthur, as told from the point of view of the women of the time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1858\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saQnES-1858","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8162,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/8162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}