{"id":6139,"date":"2015-02-20T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T14:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2015-02-20T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T14:31:03","slug":"walton-street-where-wodehouse-lived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6139","title":{"rendered":"Walton Street: Where Wodehouse Lived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once home to the humorist P.G. Wodehouse, Walton Street still emanates an <a href=\"http:\/\/tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/18\/london-city-guide-walton-street-shopping-dining\/\">old-school English charm<\/a>,&#8221; writes Amiee Farrell. &#8220;Though flanked by Harrods and The Conran Shop, it\u2019s an enclave of independent, if occasionally chichi, antiques and interiors shops, and art galleries and boutiques that has \u2014 so far \u2014 bucked the trend for high-end homogenization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought you&#8217;d want to know this. No need to thank me.<\/p>\n<p>And on a loosely related note, Gene Veith talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2015\/02\/the-12-funniest-books-ever-written\/\">Sacramone&#8217;s list of funniest books<\/a>, saying Lawrence Sterne\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0141439777?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creativeASIN=0141439777&#038;linkCode=xm2&#038;tag=brandbooks-20\">Tristram Shandy<\/a><\/i> should be on the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once home to the humorist P.G. Wodehouse, Walton Street still emanates an old-school English charm,&#8221; writes Amiee Farrell. &#8220;Though flanked by Harrods and The Conran Shop, it\u2019s an enclave of independent, if occasionally chichi, antiques and interiors shops, and art galleries and boutiques that has \u2014 so far \u2014 bucked the trend for high-end homogenization.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walton Street: Where Wodehouse Lived<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}