{"id":2364,"date":"2019-09-30T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2020-03-29T19:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T06:46:14","slug":"anna-karenina-leo-tolstoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2019\/09\/30\/anna-karenina-leo-tolstoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Karenina &#8212; Leo Tolstoy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191001_2155285742-667x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191001_2155285742-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191001_2155285742-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191001_2155285742-768x1180.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191001_2155285742-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191001_2155285742-800x1229.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191001_2155285742-1172x1800.jpg 1172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Many people consider this to be the greatest novel ever written, and who am I to argue &#8212; I loved it. The main characters are well-rounded and believable &#8212; I especially liked the man-about-town Oblonsky (he of the famous unhappy family which is unhappy in its own way) and the solid and thoughtful Levin (Tolstoy under another name).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the third-person narrative, we get to read not only what everyone thinks, but what everyone thinks everyone else thinks. It\u2019s all very nicely put together, though the writing is evocative of a lost era. Even though it\u2019s quite long, it moves at a good pace &#8212; there\u2019s plenty of development of the various characters as the narrative trundles on to its (spoiler alert) tragic conclusion.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people consider this to be the greatest novel ever written, and who am I to argue &#8212; I loved it. The main characters are well-rounded and believable &#8212; I especially liked the man-about-town Oblonsky (he of the famous unhappy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2019\/09\/30\/anna-karenina-leo-tolstoy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,179,63],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-leo-tolstoy","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/2415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}