{"id":71,"date":"2011-11-29T21:28:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T21:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/?p=71"},"modified":"2017-09-11T21:29:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T21:29:48","slug":"dorothy-and-the-wizard-of-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/2011\/11\/29\/dorothy-and-the-wizard-of-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/wizard-of-oz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-72\" src=\"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/wizard-of-oz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/wizard-of-oz.jpg 220w, https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/wizard-of-oz-72x96.jpg 72w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>If you thought the movie \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d was strange, you\u2019ll really question the drubs Baum was reading when he put together this book. The fourth of fourteen books written by L. Frank Baum about the wonderful world of Oz, this title has all the unusual aspects, odd characters, unusual landscapes and mystery you would expect.<\/p>\n<p>In Dorothy, gravity doesn\u2019t exist if you don\u2019t need it. The land grows glass structures. The people are plants. The wizard dispatches the local sorcerer by slicing him in two. The horse and cat talk and the wizard pulls apart baby pigs. And so far I\u2019m only on chapter three.<\/p>\n<p>I try to read more than Grisham novels and Stephen Ambrose history. But after tackling Dorothy, I might reconsider this plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought the movie \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d was strange, you\u2019ll really question the drubs Baum was reading when &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/2011\/11\/29\/dorothy-and-the-wizard-of-oz\/\">More<\/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":"Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookshelf","","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9aBd1-19","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}