{"id":23537,"date":"2013-12-23T06:30:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=23537"},"modified":"2013-12-20T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T22:22:16","slug":"what-im-reading-maggie-stiefvaters-the-raven-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/12\/23\/what-im-reading-maggie-stiefvaters-the-raven-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading: Maggie Stiefvater&#8217;s &#8220;The Raven Boys&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/12\/23\/what-im-reading-maggie-stiefvaters-the-raven-boys\/raven-boys\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23538\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23538\" title=\"Raven Boys\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Raven-Boys-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>What I&#8217;m reading right now is Maggie Stiefvater&#8217;s <strong>The Raven Boys<\/strong>, which is one of the best YA paranormal urban fantasies I&#8217;ve read for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really enjoying the characters and the use of Welsh legend, chiefly the historical figure of Owen Glendower, the Raven King and&#8212;if I am picking right&#8212;the myth of Blodeuwedd, Lleu and Gronw from the <strong>Mabinogion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So how about you. What are you reading and enjoying right now&#8211;and why? What about the book spins your wheels?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#8217;m reading right now is Maggie Stiefvater&#8217;s The Raven Boys, which is one of the best YA paranormal urban fantasies I&#8217;ve read for a while. I&#8217;m really enjoying the characters and the use of Welsh legend, chiefly the historical figure of Owen Glendower, the Raven King and&#8212;if I am picking right&#8212;the myth of Blodeuwedd, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23537"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23609,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23537\/revisions\/23609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}