{"id":183,"date":"2010-10-22T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T09:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icdublinlibrary.wordpress.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2010-10-22T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T09:58:20","slug":"new-spanish-writing-by-miranda-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/new-spanish-writing-by-miranda-france\/","title":{"rendered":"New Spanish writing, by Miranda France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_184\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/icdublinlibrary.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/new-spanish.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-184\" src=\"http:\/\/icdublinlibrary.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/new-spanish.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"New Spanish Books\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/files\/2010\/10\/new-spanish.jpg 448w, https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/files\/2010\/10\/new-spanish-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Spanish Books<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the great attractions of learning a foreign language &#8211; especially one your parents don\u2019t speak &#8211; is that feeling of a door opening onto secret territory.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly the hours spent poring over grammar books and verb tables yield their reward: here is a new world of landscapes, characters, sights and sounds one need not share with immediate family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>I have a bad memory for fiction, but the first Spanish novels I read, at about fifteen, have stayed with me better than English novels read at the same time. Thanks to those books, I travelled to Spain long before actually setting foot on Spanish soil.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"New Spanish writing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newspanishbooks.com\/feature-article\/miranda-france-new-spanish-writing\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230; New Spanish writing, by Miranda France<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Ficdublinlibrary.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F22%2Fnew-spanish-writing-by-miranda-france%2F&amp;linkname=New%20Spanish%20writing%2C%20by%20Miranda%20France\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/buttons\/share_save_256_24.png\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great attractions of learning a foreign language &#8211; especially one your parents don\u2019t speak &#8211; is that feeling of a door opening onto secret territory. Suddenly the hours spent poring over grammar books and verb tables yield their reward: here is a new world of landscapes, characters, sights and sounds one need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61],"tags":[338,399],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}