{"id":118,"date":"2009-02-16T07:56:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T13:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2011-09-23T21:21:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T02:21:01","slug":"the-king-and-mrs-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/the-king-and-mrs-simpson\/","title":{"rendered":"The King and Mrs. Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/7460231\">The King and Mrs. Simpson<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/schulzerinfrances\">Erin Frances Schulz<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"brtext_41825318\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/er\/list\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.librarything.com\/pics\/bird-tiny.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><em>This review was written for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/er\/list\">LibraryThing Early Reviewers<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Erin Frances Schulz gives us a &#8220;Readers&#8217; Digest&#8221; version of a romantic biography. It is very short and to the point, one page per episode. It was easy to read, but it also felt like reading the executive summary of a scientific report. It satisfies the immediate curiosity but leaves one wondering about the parts not included.<\/p>\n<p>It is an enjoyable read if one understands its premise. It is presented in a very romantic way about two characters who have so many classic flaws as to contradict the romance. He a king with an empire at a precarious time abandons all that for which he has been prepared for a woman who can&#8217;t seem to keep a marriage vow for more than a few years. All-in-all, I enjoyed the reading more than the subject. ( <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.librarything.com\/pics\/ss6.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is an enjoyable read if one understands its premise. It is presented in a very romantic way about two characters who have so many classic flaws as to contradict the romance. He a king with an empire at a precarious time abandons all that for which he has been prepared for a woman who can&#8217;t seem to keep a marriage vow for more than a few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[39,79,66,89,90],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-films","tag-biography","tag-britain","tag-history-2","tag-romance","tag-romance-royaltyt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DORt-1U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}