{"id":689,"date":"2012-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=689"},"modified":"2025-01-01T12:57:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T23:57:44","slug":"a-cat-a-hat-and-a-piece-of-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/01\/01\/a-cat-a-hat-and-a-piece-of-string\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cat, A Hat And A Piece Of String"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Joanne Harris<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Doubleday<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, 2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The short stories in Joanne Harris\u2019s latest collection, <em>A Cat, a Hat and a Piece of String<\/em>, are every bit as eclectic as her novels.\u00a0 Traversing a range of genres from realism to the fantasy, with topics as diverse as Congolese children shooting rapids in exchange for alms from watching tourists to a love story involving a woman and a tree, there is something here for everybody.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Although the quality of the stories is variable, even the weaker pieces are still entertaining and the best are first-rate; my favourite, in which a rest-home worker treats two residents to a tropical holiday in their own lounge room, is a poignant reminder of both the vulnerability of the elderly and the way the smallest gestures can make all the difference to somebody\u2019s life. This is a book well worth packing away for summer reading, and a reminder that there is more to Harris than <em>Chocolat.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanne Harris<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOtago Daily Times review 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,370,118,18,375],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-153","tag-fiction","tag-joanne-harris","tag-odt","tag-short-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}