{"id":10,"date":"2010-10-05T12:11:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T16:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2015-02-26T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:55:10","slug":"major-pettigrews-last-stand-by-helen-simonson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Major Pettigrew\u2019s Last Stand by Helen\u00a0Simonson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pettigrew-e1424976844521.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3167 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pettigrew-e1424976844521.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A delightful story about a widowed British major who unexpectedly finds his relationship with shopkeeper Mrs. Ali deepening when she comes to his aid following his brother&#8217;s death.\u00a0 However, she is a foreigner. Can the village accept her?\u00a0 This novel is filled with memorable characters, including the Major&#8217;s horrid sister-in-law, his self-centered son, and Mrs. Ali&#8217;s conflicted nephew.\u00a0 Highly recommended.\u00a0 The audio version is particularly well done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delightful story about a widowed British major who unexpectedly finds his relationship with shopkeeper Mrs. Ali deepening when she comes to his aid following his brother&#8217;s death.\u00a0 However, she is a foreigner. Can the village accept her?\u00a0 This novel is filled with memorable characters, including the Major&#8217;s horrid sister-in-law, his self-centered son, and Mrs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=10\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Major Pettigrew\u2019s Last Stand by Helen\u00a0Simonson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-lois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}