{"id":4098,"date":"2009-08-12T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2009-07-29T14:54:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T20:54:14","slug":"the-armchair-traveler-traveling-through-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-armchair-traveler-traveling-through-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Armchair Traveler &#8211; Traveling through Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4099\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/s-Wife.jpg?resize=163%2C211&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"s Wife\" width=\"163\" height=\"211\" \/>Audrey Niffenegger&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|636878\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife<\/em><\/strong><\/a> will be released as a movie starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana on August 14th. This combines two excellent genres &#8211; novels featuring librarians and time travel. (There\u00a0can never be\u00a0enough stories about &#8220;hip, handsome&#8221; librarians).\u00a0 Henry works for the Newberry library in Chicago and involuntarily pops up in his own past and future.<\/p>\n<p>Add to this, time travel as an &#8220;impossible romantic trap&#8221; and you have box office magic. Consider the romantic traps inherent in movies such as <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|945042\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Somewhere in Time<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|1043851\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>The Lake House<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2125890\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. When your lover is aging at a different rate or is in a different time zone, so to speak, it makes for a relationship complication.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s your chance to expand your travel choices &#8211; really expand them. Outside our time\/space continuum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audrey Niffenegger&#8217;s Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife will be released as a movie starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana on August 14th. This combines two excellent genres &#8211; novels featuring librarians and time travel. (There\u00a0can never be\u00a0enough stories about &#8220;hip, handsome&#8221; librarians).\u00a0 Henry works for the Newberry library in Chicago and involuntarily<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-armchair-traveler-traveling-through-time\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[248,408,426],"class_list":["post-4098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dvds","tag-love","tag-romance","tag-time-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-146","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4103,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions\/4103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}