{"id":2770,"date":"2014-08-04T21:01:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T21:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2015-03-30T21:48:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:48:41","slug":"the-matchmaker-by-elin-hilderbrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2770","title":{"rendered":"The Matchmaker by Elin Hilderbrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2788 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-Matchmaker.jpg\" alt=\"The Matchmaker\" width=\"129\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking for a good quick beach read?\u00a0 Like romance and believe in long lost love? \u00a0Like a good cry?\u00a0 Then this book will meet all your expectations.\u00a0 It starts out light, but before you know it, you see there\u2019s more to the main character, Dabney.\u00a0 Dabney, a native of Nantucket, seems to have the perfect life until complications occur when her high school \u201clove of her life\u201d reappears on the island after a twenty-seven-year separation.\u00a0 It wouldn&#8217;t be complicated if it weren\u2019t for the fact that she had his child after he left and she is now married to someone else.\u00a0 His return stirs up feelings that she thought she had buried forever. \u00a0At the same time, her daughter&#8217;s love life is a mess and she doesn&#8217;t know how to help her. The story is filled with happiness, love, hate and sadness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a good quick beach read?\u00a0 Like romance and believe in long lost love? \u00a0Like a good cry?\u00a0 Then this book will meet all your expectations.\u00a0 It starts out light, but before you know it, you see there\u2019s more to the main character, Dabney.\u00a0 Dabney, a native of Nantucket, seems to have the perfect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2770\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Matchmaker by Elin Hilderbrand<\/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":[3,4,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-joann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","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=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}