{"id":2727,"date":"2010-07-05T23:51:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T23:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2010-08-23T17:56:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T17:56:06","slug":"water-for-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/05\/water-for-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"water for elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I avoided Twilight phenomena because, to be frank, I didn&#8217;t want anything to pollute my image of a shirtless, ageless David Boreanaz.  Still, I&#8217;ve always had a thing for British Boys, and Robert Pattinson has a superbly fascinating face.  So, on Sunday I stole into a screening of Eclipse.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Water-for-Elephants-Sara-GruenChristoph-Waltz.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Water for Elephants Sara GruenChristoph Waltz\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Water-for-Elephants-Sara-GruenChristoph-Waltz.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Water-for-Elephants-Sara-GruenChristoph-Waltz-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today I read Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.  I&#8217;ve had this book laying on my bedside table for almost a year, and only picked it up because of the Pattinson connection.  I&#8217;m sorry I&#8217;ve left it so long because this lady can write the socks off some of the authors I&#8217;ve been reading lately.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not very often that I anticipate the movie over the book &#8211; but with a cast that includes Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson (He looks like he just stepped out of the Salford Lads Club circa The Smiths &#8211; that&#8217;s enough for me to think he&#8217;s hot) and the formidable Christoph Waltz (If there&#8217;s a better August out there, I&#8217;ve not seen him), Director Francis Lawrence is gonna be hard pressed <em>not<\/em> to make the adaptation better than the book itself.   <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I avoided Twilight phenomena because, to be frank, I didn&#8217;t want anything to pollute my image of a shirtless, ageless David Boreanaz. Still, I&#8217;ve always had a thing for British Boys, and Robert Pattinson has a superbly fascinating face. So, on Sunday I stole into a screening of Eclipse. Today I read Water for Elephants<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}