{"id":1639,"date":"2023-01-19T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2023-01-19T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:15:00","slug":"normal-people-by-sally-rooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/2023\/01\/19\/normal-people-by-sally-rooney\/","title":{"rendered":"Normal People by Sally Rooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/content?vid=ISBN9780571334650&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=1\" alt=\"Normal people\" \/>Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there.<\/p>\n<p>In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner.<\/p>\n<p>But when the two strike up a conversation &#8211; awkward but electrifying &#8211; something life-changing begins. Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love.<\/p>\n<p>It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">It&#8217;s a gread book. Really interesting. I love Sally Rooney books. HB *****<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation &#8211; awkward but electrifying &#8211; something life-changing begins. Normal People is a story of mutual &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,14,143,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships","category-romance","category-rooney","category-young-adult-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}