{"id":9809,"date":"2015-08-20T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T00:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=9809"},"modified":"2015-08-20T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T00:02:28","slug":"whats-on-your-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2015\/08\/whats-on-your-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s On Your Reading List?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9810\" style=\"width: 661px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2015\/08\/CC_BUL-August-p39-Bookshelf-Lomas-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9810\" data-attachment-id=\"9810\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2015\/08\/whats-on-your-reading-list\/cc_bul-august-p39-bookshelf-lomas-2015\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2015\/08\/CC_BUL-August-p39-Bookshelf-Lomas-2015.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,862\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Colorado College&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CC_BUL-August-p39-Bookshelf-Lomas-2015\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Clara Lomas&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2015\/08\/CC_BUL-August-p39-Bookshelf-Lomas-2015-300x215.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2015\/08\/CC_BUL-August-p39-Bookshelf-Lomas-2015-1024x735.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9810\" alt=\"Clara Lomas\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2015\/08\/CC_BUL-August-p39-Bookshelf-Lomas-2015-1024x735.jpg\" width=\"651\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2015\/08\/CC_BUL-August-p39-Bookshelf-Lomas-2015-1024x735.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2015\/08\/CC_BUL-August-p39-Bookshelf-Lomas-2015-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2015\/08\/CC_BUL-August-p39-Bookshelf-Lomas-2015-651x467.jpg 651w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2015\/08\/CC_BUL-August-p39-Bookshelf-Lomas-2015-994x714.jpg 994w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2015\/08\/CC_BUL-August-p39-Bookshelf-Lomas-2015-292x209.jpg 292w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2015\/08\/CC_BUL-August-p39-Bookshelf-Lomas-2015.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clara Lomas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We asked Spanish Professor Clara Lomas: What\u2019s On Your Reading List?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u201d by Junot D\u00edaz<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe book takes us on a journey into an American story of imagination, migrations, fantasy, and desire. This transnational novel is an aesthetic amalgam of realism, science fiction, magical realism, and action hero comic book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lomas is chair of the Spanish and Portuguese Department and director of the CC Semester in Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We asked Spanish Professor Clara Lomas: What\u2019s On Your Reading List? \u201cThe Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u201d by Junot D\u00edaz \u201cThe book takes us on a journey into an American story of imagination, migrations, fantasy, and desire. This transnational novel is an aesthetic amalgam of realism, science fiction, magical realism, and action hero&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-9809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-august-2015","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9811,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions\/9811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}