{"id":325,"date":"2010-12-01T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2015-04-08T19:44:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:44:26","slug":"ash-by-malinda-lo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Ash by Malinda Lo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   alignleft wp-image-331\" title=\"Ash\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ash1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aisling\u2019s father did his best to care for her after her mother died, but his protection ended when he died, and her jealous stepmother did her best to make up for lost time. \u00a0Horrible living conditions? \u00a0Check. \u00a0Too much hard labor for one person to complete? \u00a0Check.\u00a0 A dream that she will some day escape this hellish existence?\u00a0 Check.\u00a0 Sure, this is a Cinderella story\u00a0. . .\u00a0 but it\u2019s not your mama\u2019s Cinderella story! \u00a0More than just a coming of age story and a fairy tale with a twist, this is a beautifully written tale about what it truly means to live and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aisling\u2019s father did his best to care for her after her mother died, but his protection ended when he died, and her jealous stepmother did her best to make up for lost time. \u00a0Horrible living conditions? \u00a0Check. \u00a0Too much hard labor for one person to complete? \u00a0Check.\u00a0 A dream that she will some day escape &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ash by Malinda Lo<\/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":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","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\/325","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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}