{"id":5179,"date":"2017-12-15T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2017-12-15T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:45:20","slug":"silk-and-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/?p=5179","title":{"rendered":"Silk and Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dana Stabenow<\/h3>\n

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Beijing, 1322.\u00a0 Sixteen-year-old Wu Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo.\u00a0 In the wake of her father’s death, Johanna finds lineage counts for little amid the disintegrating court of the Khan.\u00a0 Johanna’s destiny–if she has one, lies with her grandfather, in Venice.\u00a0 So, with a small band of companions, she takes to the road–the Silk Road–that storied collection of routes that link the silks of Cathay, the spices of the Indies and the jewels of the Indus to the markets of the west.\u00a0 But first she must survive treachery and betrayal on a road beset by thieves, fanatics and warlords.<\/p>\nShare This Post With People You Know:<\/strong>
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By Dana Stabenow Beijing, 1322.\u00a0 Sixteen-year-old Wu Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo.\u00a0 In the wake of her father’s death, Johanna finds lineage counts for little amid the disintegrating court of the Khan.\u00a0 Johanna’s destiny–if she has one, lies with her grandfather, in Venice.\u00a0 So, with a small band of companions, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5181,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions\/5181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}