{"id":571,"date":"2011-03-10T21:06:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T01:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:49:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:49:32","slug":"beekeepers-apprentice-by-laurie-r-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"The Beekeeper&#8217;s Apprentice by Laurie R. King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-794 size-full\" title=\"The Beekeeper's Apprentice\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/The-Beekeepers-Apprentice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An intelligent and beautifully written mystery featuring a retired Sherlock Holmes, who meets his match in precocious fifteen-year-old orphan Mary Russell. Russell impresses the legendary Holmes with her intellect and sharp tongue, and Holmes takes her under his wing. The pair set out across England to solve a series of mysteries, getting along at times like oil and water, at others like two cantankerous peas in a pod. King captures the acuity and fastidiousness of Conan Doyle&#8217;s original Holmes, and creates a very likable character in Mary Russell. This the first (and my favorite) in an ongoing Russell\/Holmes series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An intelligent and beautifully written mystery featuring a retired Sherlock Holmes, who meets his match in precocious fifteen-year-old orphan Mary Russell. Russell impresses the legendary Holmes with her intellect and sharp tongue, and Holmes takes her under his wing. The pair set out across England to solve a series of mysteries, getting along at times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=571\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Beekeeper&#8217;s Apprentice by Laurie R. King<\/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":[3,4,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-elizabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","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=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}