{"id":4255,"date":"2016-11-23T21:49:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T21:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2016-11-23T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T21:49:25","slug":"44-scotland-street-by-alexander-mccall-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4255","title":{"rendered":"44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4286\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1241890\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4286\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/44-Scotland-Street-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"44-scotland-street\" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/44-Scotland-Street-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/44-Scotland-Street.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>44 Scotland Street<\/em> is the first in a\u00a0series by Alexander McCall Smith by the same name.\u00a0The story takes place in Edinburgh in a neighborhood with very colorful residents.\u00a0 You will meet Pat, a young woman taking her gap year in Edinburgh; Bruce, who shares the flat with Pat; Domenica, an interesting widow in another flat; Bernie and his mother on the floor below. Bernie is only five and already learning Italian and\u00a0how to play the saxophone.\u00a0 Pat finds a job working for Matthew\u00a0in an art gallery but knows little about art.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find yourself turning pages and deep into the story before you know it. McCall Smith has a talent for giving many details but not getting bogged down in them. \u00a0He&#8217;s very insightful and develops deep characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>44 Scotland Street is the first in a\u00a0series by Alexander McCall Smith by the same name.\u00a0The story takes place in Edinburgh in a neighborhood with very colorful residents.\u00a0 You will meet Pat, a young woman taking her gap year in Edinburgh; Bruce, who shares the flat with Pat; Domenica, an interesting widow in another flat; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4255\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith<\/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-4255","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\/4255","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=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}