{"id":5716,"date":"2014-03-27T19:48:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T00:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2014-03-27T19:48:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T00:48:58","slug":"coopers-book-report-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=5716","title":{"rendered":"Cooper&#8217;s Book Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s book is <em>The Conditions of Love<\/em> by Dale M. Kushner.<a href=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/conditions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5717\" alt=\"conditions\" src=\"http:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/conditions.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/conditions.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/conditions-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/conditions-686x1024.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>Despite the big blue budgie on the cover, this book was not about a budgie! <em>The Conditions of Love<\/em> is the story of Eunice, a young girl struggling to find love as she journeys through life.<\/p>\n<p>There <em>is<\/em> a budgie in the book, Mr. Puccini, a green and yellow bird (unlike the blue budgie on the cover) who teaches Mern, Eunice&#8217;s self-centered mother, &#8220;simple happiness&#8221;. When Mr. Puccini escapes through an open window Mern is devastated (as one would be). Though Mr. Puccini only appears on a few pages, Cooper thought he was the star of this beautifully written, poignant story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s book is The Conditions of Love by Dale M. Kushner.Despite the big blue budgie on the cover, this book was not about a budgie! The Conditions of Love is the story of Eunice, a young girl struggling to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/?p=5716\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[7,2289,179,1436,6,1435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5718,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions\/5718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}