{"id":2340,"date":"2014-08-13T04:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T04:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torontowots.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/13\/the-oakdale-dinner-club-part-2\/"},"modified":"2015-08-14T14:38:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:38:58","slug":"the-oakdale-dinner-club-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/the-oakdale-dinner-club-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oakdale Dinner Club: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Word On The Street&#8217;s Book Club discussion of\u00a0<em>The Oakdale Dinner Club<\/em> got started last week. <a href=\"..\/..\/toronto\/welcome-to-the-word-on-the-street-book-club\/\">Check out the conversation!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, book club leader Liz has a few questions based on roughly Chapters 8 &#8211; 16. Feel free to use these as a jumping-off point for any other thoughts or questions you may have too.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hello! Here\u2019s one of my favourite apple pie recipes, from Nigella Lawson&#8217;s &#8220;How to be a Domestic Goddess&#8221;. I made this for my birthday! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.food.com\/recipe\/double-apple-pie-337431\">http:\/\/www.food.com\/recipe\/double-apple-pie-337431<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part 2:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What do you think of the shifting character perspectives? Do they roughly align with one was introduced at the pool in the opening scene?<\/li>\n<li>How does Sam feel about Mary Ann? Does he care about her, or an idealized version of her?<\/li>\n<li>Why doesn&#8217;t Danielle enjoy cooking? She is obviously a gifted cook, but grates at being identified as a cook or maintaining a farm. What does this say about her perceived place in her family, versus what she wants?<\/li>\n<li>How is Melina, the babysitter, reflecting Mary Ann and Alice&#8217;s paths to adulthood?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Word On The Street&#8217;s Book Club discussion of\u00a0The Oakdale Dinner Club got started last week. Check out the conversation! This week, book club leader Liz has a few questions based on roughly Chapters 8 &#8211; 16. Feel free to use these as a jumping-off point for any other thoughts or questions you may have <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/the-oakdale-dinner-club-part-2\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}