{"id":9528,"date":"2017-09-06T15:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T22:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=9528"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:30:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T18:30:16","slug":"who-says-murder-is-for-the-young-stone-mattress-by-margaret-atwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/who-says-murder-is-for-the-young-stone-mattress-by-margaret-atwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Says Murder is for the Young?  &#8220;Stone Mattress&#8221; by Margaret Atwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/09\/StoneMattress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9529\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/09\/StoneMattress.jpg\" alt=\"StoneMattress\" width=\"275\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a>Atwood\u2019s tales live up to her reputation: nine frothy, witty, macabre stories, the first trio of which are carefully and tangentially intertwined, all of which are enough to draw out a snicker and to stand your hair on end.<\/p>\n<p>Atwood has never shied away from nontraditional protagonists and Stone Mattress is no different; her characters skew older, from a middle aged widow to an elderly woman in a recently overrun retirement home to sixty something woman out to kill the man who ruined her life.\u00a0 Hollywood may have a hard time believing that life exists after age thirty, but Atwood makes no such mistake here.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out in the Popular Reading Collection today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atwood\u2019s tales live up to her reputation: nine frothy, witty, macabre stories, the first trio of which are carefully and tangentially intertwined, all of which are enough to draw out a snicker and to stand your hair on end. Atwood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/who-says-murder-is-for-the-young-stone-mattress-by-margaret-atwood\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9531,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions\/9531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}