{"id":4253,"date":"2016-10-19T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T12:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2016-10-18T18:07:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T18:07:59","slug":"a-man-called-ove-by-fredrik-backman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4253","title":{"rendered":"A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4265\" style=\"width: 128px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1628309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4265\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/A-Man-Called-Ove-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"a-man-called-ove\" width=\"128\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/A-Man-Called-Ove-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/A-Man-Called-Ove.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Have you ever had a neighbor who always seemed so cranky that you avoided getting to know him\/her?\u00a0 It has probably happened to all of us at some time. \u00a0Well, Ove is that kind of neighbor: very rigid, grumpy and set in his ways.\u00a0 It took an unexpected encounter between Ove and new neighbors to change his character, and in fact the entire neighborhood.\u00a0 You will be pleasantly surprised at the difference this incident made for all those concerned.\u00a0 It may even change the way you approach a similar situation in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever had a neighbor who always seemed so cranky that you avoided getting to know him\/her?\u00a0 It has probably happened to all of us at some time. \u00a0Well, Ove is that kind of neighbor: very rigid, grumpy and set in his ways.\u00a0 It took an unexpected encounter between Ove and new neighbors to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman<\/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":[3,4,8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-dee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253","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=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}