{"id":2068,"date":"2013-10-24T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2015-03-31T00:13:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:13:28","slug":"seraphina-by-rachel-hartman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"Seraphina by Rachel Hartman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Seraphina\"<\/p>\n

Seraphina\u2019s father, a high ranking official, was extremely overprotective and wished to keep her hidden away as much as possible.\u00a0 She assumed it was because her mother had died in childbirth and somewhat forgave his overbearing nature, but that didn\u2019t mean she was pleased with his strict rules \u2014 especially the rule forbidding her from playing music.\u00a0 When she found her mother\u2019s old flute, she taught herself how to play and then played in front of some party guests to force his hand with music lessons.\u00a0 Serafina did not understand why this caused him to become so enraged and to fear for her safety, but she was pleased that he at last conceded to let her study music with tutor named Orma [a dragon in human form].\u00a0 The lessons improved her skill so much that she eventually became apprentice to a famous musician and then even became a tutor for the princess.\u00a0 When Seraphina discovered the secret that drove her father\u2019s fear, she began to understand that working with such high-ranking people put her in grave danger, but it was too late.\u00a0 At that point, she could only hope to keep safe and to protect the people she cared about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seraphina\u2019s father, a high ranking official, was extremely overprotective and wished to keep her hidden away as much as possible.\u00a0 She assumed it was because her mother had died in childbirth and somewhat forgave his overbearing nature, but that didn\u2019t mean she was pleased with his strict rules \u2014 especially the rule forbidding her from … Continue reading Seraphina by Rachel Hartman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}