{"id":1316,"date":"2011-12-11T15:09:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T20:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calla2.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2011-12-11T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T20:09:42","slug":"review-robert-massies-catherine-the-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/review-robert-massies-catherine-the-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Robert Massie&#8217;s Catherine The Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/10414941-catherine-the-great?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_book\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1320566047m\/10414941.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loved this book. Catherine the Great was a bundle of contradictions. A brilliant mind and a great manipulator. Robert Massie&#8217;s well-researched and beautifully written biography does Catherine justice. I had read biographies of her before but none so thorough as this.<\/p>\n<p>Massie uses an anecdotal style that is highly readable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loved this book. Catherine the Great was a bundle of contradictions. A brilliant mind and a great manipulator. Robert Massie&#8217;s well-researched and beautifully written biography does Catherine justice. I had read biographies of her before but none so thorough as this. Massie uses an anecdotal style that is highly readable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}