{"id":33,"date":"2007-08-06T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2010-10-02T23:26:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T03:26:31","slug":"wendys-book-club-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/wendys-book-club-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy&#8217;s Book Club: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/RrYQz0pRPrI\/AAAAAAAAAFs\/vnqgZtAM6z0\/s1600-h\/boleynpainting.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095278510907408050\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/RrYQz0pRPrI\/AAAAAAAAAFs\/vnqgZtAM6z0\/s320\/boleynpainting.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRalph Waldo Emerson said, &#8220;There is no history, only biography.&#8221; I agree. Most of the books I read are either biographies or historical fiction about queens and other intriguing women. My main jewelry collection is called Vivat Regina (Latin for &#8220;God Save the Queen.&#8221;) Each Vivat Regina piece is named for a different queen, and if you check out the collection on my website, you&#8217;ll see there&#8217;s a mini biography for each piece &#8212; beautiful AND educational, no? I try to read at least two books about each queen before I create her piece.  I&#8217;ll post my book recommendations every Thursday&#8230;or whenever I remember. (Portrait of Anne Boleyn from <a href=\"http:\/\/englishhistory.net\/tudor\/monarchs\/boleyn.html\">EnglishHistory.net<\/a>.) <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Waldo Emerson said, &#8220;There is no history, only biography.&#8221; I agree. Most of the books I read are either biographies or historical fiction about queens and other intriguing women. My main jewelry collection is called Vivat Regina (Latin for &#8220;God Save the Queen.&#8221;) Each Vivat Regina piece is named for a different queen, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/wendys-book-club-introduction\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-book-club","category-queens","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7329,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/7329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}