{"id":22284,"date":"2014-09-22T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=22284"},"modified":"2014-09-19T17:02:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T22:02:34","slug":"paris-letters-by-janice-macleod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/paris-letters-by-janice-macleod\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1044772\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22424\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/paris-letters.jpg?resize=265%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"paris letters\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/paris-letters.jpg?w=265&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/paris-letters.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><em><strong>Paris Letters<\/strong><\/em><\/a> explores finding love and freedom in a pen, a paintbrush&#8230; and Paris<\/p>\n<p>How much money does it take to quit your job? Exhausted and on the verge of burnout, Janice poses this questions to herself as she doodles on a notepad at her desk. Surprisingly, the answer isn&#8217;t as daunting as she expected. With a little math and a lot of determination, Janice cuts back, saves up, and buys herself two years of freedom in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>A few days into her stop in Paris, Janice meets Christophe, the cute butcher down the street-who doesn&#8217;t speak English. Through a combination of sign language and franglais, they embark on a whirlwind Paris romance. She soon realizes that she can never return to the world of twelve-hour workdays and greasy corporate lingo. But her dwindling savings force her to find a way to fund her dreams again. So Janice turns to her three loves &#8211; words, art, and Christophe &#8211; to figure out a way to make her happily-ever-after in Paris last forever.<em> (description from publisher)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Letters explores finding love and freedom in a pen, a paintbrush&#8230; and Paris How much money does it take to quit your job? Exhausted and on the verge of burnout, Janice poses this questions to herself as she doodles on a notepad at her desk. Surprisingly, the answer isn&#8217;t<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/paris-letters-by-janice-macleod\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[885,1140,408],"class_list":["post-22284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-art","tag-paris","tag-romance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5Nq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22425,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284\/revisions\/22425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}