{"id":2152,"date":"2016-01-09T17:44:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T17:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2016-01-09T17:44:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T17:44:02","slug":"georgette-heyer-regency-romance-2-an-infamous-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/georgette-heyer-regency-romance-2-an-infamous-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgette Heyer Regency Romance #2: &#8216;An Infamous Army&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1320463470l\/311226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"414\" \/>I set out to read all of Georgette Heyer\u2019s Regency romances in publication order, and here I am at the second book, written in 1937, and already I\u2019m refusing to jump. The opening is a whole confusion of characters, so, naturally, I turned to the Goodreads reviews for advice. And find that this book is more of a historical treatise on the Battle of Waterloo than fiction. It is, apparently, still required reading for the officer training school at Sandhurst.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it may be picky of me, but I read for entertainment, not to be hit over the head with the author\u2019s depth of research. I\u2019ll take a raincheck on this one, and maybe come back to it later, when I feel stronger. Pass.<\/p>\n<p>Nice cover, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set out to read all of Georgette Heyer\u2019s Regency romances in publication order, and here I am at the second book, written in 1937, and already I\u2019m refusing to jump. The opening is a whole confusion of characters, so, naturally, I turned to the Goodreads reviews for advice. And find that this book is more of a historical treatise on the Battle of Waterloo than fiction. It is, apparently, still required reading for the officer training school at Sandhurst. Well, it may be picky of me, but I read for entertainment, not to be hit over the head with the author\u2019s depth of research. I\u2019ll take a raincheck on this one, and maybe come back to it later, when I feel stronger. Pass. Nice cover, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[172,170,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}