{"id":87,"date":"2026-10-31T10:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T10:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/books-for-a-rainy-week\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T10:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T10:15:47","slug":"books-for-a-rainy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/books-for-a-rainy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Books for a Rainy Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a particular kind of book that only works when it is raining. It needs to be long enough to get lost in, slow enough to savor and warm enough to feel like company. This week the forecast is grey from end to end, so we asked around the shop for the books people reach for first.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For the first wet evening<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Houses of Quiet Weather<\/em> is the obvious place to begin: three sisters, one house and a summer of rain that will not stop. It is the rare novel that makes being stuck indoors feel like a gift.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For a long Sunday<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Nine Keys to Marrow Hall<\/em> is a proper country-house puzzle, the kind you read with a notebook nearby. For something gentler, <em>Bread, Stone &amp; Harbour<\/em> wanders through small ports and smaller trades, one chapter per cup of tea.<\/p><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best rainy-day books do not ask you to hurry. They simply ask you to stay.<\/p><\/blockquote><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For reading aloud<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there are small people in the house, <em>The Hedgehog Who Collected Clouds<\/em> is a funny, perfectly timed story about weather, sharing and jars.<\/p><p class=\"fo-demo-note wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A demo article for the Foliowick theme. The books mentioned are fictional.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five absorbing, unhurried novels to read while the weather does its worst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reading-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}