{"id":3506,"date":"2024-03-07T20:38:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T20:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2024-03-24T17:13:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T17:13:14","slug":"after-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3506","title":{"rendered":"After Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A wonderful addition to the literature of The Wizard of Oz, this novel focuses on 11-year-old Dorothy Gale, \u201cdreamy, distant, difficult,\u201d and her eventual return to Kansas via a pumpkin field, where she is found sleeping.<\/strong> Poor Dorothy didn\u2019t know the drill\u2014she was insistent on the reality of the fantastic land she had left, with \u201ctalking beasts, flying monkeys, and a wizard\u201d\u2014when she should have been accusing the Oz citizenry as being ungodly pagans. But it\u2019s Dorothy\u2019s admission that she murdered (actually melted) the witch, and the discovery that a leading, witch-like townswoman, Alvina, has also been murdered (melted by lye), that sends Dorothy off to the Topeka Insane Asylum. Fortunately for Dorothy, the town is visited by Dr. Evelyn Grace Wilford, a student of William James, who faces the misogyny and Christianity of the townspeople to learn the truth of what really happened to Dorothy Gale. A delight from start to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful addition to the literature of The Wizard of Oz, this novel focuses on 11-year-old Dorothy Gale, \u201cdreamy, distant, difficult,\u201d and her eventual return to Kansas via a pumpkin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[54,55,52,82,51],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-historical","tag-mystery-detective","tag-psychological","tag-small-town-rural","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Oz-400x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Oz.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}