{"id":1613,"date":"2006-08-14T23:41:51","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T23:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/08\/black_juice\/"},"modified":"2006-08-14T23:41:51","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T23:41:51","slug":"black_juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/black_juice\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Juice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0575077816&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nI think that Black Juice, a collection of short stories with a vaguely fantasy\/science fiction feel to them, might count as kids fiction, since the protagonists in most of the tales are children &#8211; well apart from the one that&#8217;s an elephant.<br \/>\nI found the overall collection a bit hit and miss. It opens quite strongly with Singing My Sister Down set at a tar pit. The tale involving elephants is also quite enchanting. And the Wooden Bride is also good, while Red Nose Day was michievously funny. But some of the stories I wasn&#8217;t as enamoured by.<br \/>\nAuthor, Margo Lanagan, is certainly incredibly imaginative, and I&#8217;d be curious in reading a full novel set in one of these worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that Black Juice, a collection of short stories with a vaguely fantasy\/science fiction feel to them, might count as kids fiction, since the protagonists in most of the tales are children &#8211; well apart from the one that&#8217;s an elephant. I found the overall collection a bit hit and miss. It opens quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}