{"id":15852,"date":"2015-05-02T18:50:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T02:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=15852"},"modified":"2015-05-02T18:50:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T02:50:39","slug":"15852","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=15852","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ruth-Rendell-011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15853\" title=\"Ruth Rendell\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ruth-Rendell-011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ruth-Rendell-011.jpg 620w, https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ruth-Rendell-011-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ruth Rendell died today and the world feels emptier already. I probably spent 2.5 solid years reading all her books. And i keep thinking it she&#8217;d had more time (she was 85), there would have been more. She was writing right up to the end. Some writers run out of steam. Not Ruth.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth, deservedly the most decorated of British crime writer,\u00a0transformed what had become a staid and formulaic genre into something that offered scope for a different kind of crime novel. She turned it into a prism for examining the world with a critical eye.<\/p>\n<p>Two lines from one of my favorite of her novels, A Judgement in Stone: the opening with line: \u201cEunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read and write\u201d<\/p>\n<div>and \u201cShe was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Barbara Rendell, Lady Rendell of Babergh, writer, born 17 February 1930; died 2 May 2015<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Rendell died today and the world feels emptier already. I probably spent 2.5 solid years reading all her books. And i keep thinking it she&#8217;d had more time (she was 85), there would have been more. She was writing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=15852\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15857,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions\/15857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}