{"id":264,"date":"2006-05-29T00:50:17","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T04:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=264"},"modified":"2012-01-20T20:35:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T01:35:55","slug":"14671-%c2%a0%c2%a0-barbara-haworth-attard-theories-of-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"14671.&nbsp;(Barbara Haworth-Attard) Theories of Relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is a juve\u00adnile nov\u00adel about a teenag\u00ader liv\u00ading on the streets of an uniden\u00adti\u00adfied Cana\u00addi\u00adan city.&nbsp;He is not, strict\u00adly speak\u00ading, a \u201crun\u00adaway\u201d, but the equal\u00adly com\u00admon \u201cthrown away\u201d, effec\u00adtive\u00adly kicked out of a dis\u00adfunc\u00adtion\u00adal sin\u00adgle-fam\u00adi\u00adly home.&nbsp;Unlike most books of this sort, Haworth-Attard\u2019s treat\u00adment is nei\u00adther sen\u00adti\u00admen\u00adtal, nor preachy. This kind of street life is some\u00adthing I know well, and I can vouch for the accu\u00adra\u00adcy of most of the details.&nbsp;I found only a few small improb\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adties, and those sub\u00adject to inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion.&nbsp;The author has done her home\u00adwork.&nbsp;As a sto\u00adry, it reads well.&nbsp;The char\u00adac\u00adters are believ\u00adable, and the use of Ein\u00adstein as a leit\u00admo\u00adtif is deft\u00adly han\u00addled.&nbsp;In recent years, fic\u00adtion aimed at teenage read\u00aders is being writ\u00adten at a very high lev\u00adel qual\u00adi\u00adty, espe\u00adcial\u00adly in Cana\u00adda.&nbsp;Iron\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, one has to go to teenage fic\u00adtion to find the hon\u00adesty, seri\u00adous sub\u00adject mat\u00adter, and emo\u00adtion\u00adal inten\u00adsi\u00adty that are van\u00adish\u00ading from genre fic\u00adtion aimed at adults.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a juve\u00adnile nov\u00adel about a teenag\u00ader liv\u00ading on the streets of an uniden\u00adti\u00adfied Cana\u00addi\u00adan city.&nbsp;He is not, strict\u00adly speak\u00ading, a \u201crun\u00adaway\u201d, but the equal\u00adly com\u00admon \u201cthrown away\u201d, effec\u00adtive\u00adly kicked out of a dis\u00adfunc\u00adtion\u00adal sin\u00ad\u00adgle-fam\u00adi\u00ad\u00adly home.&nbsp;Unlike most books&nbsp;of&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=264\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bu-reading-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4229,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/4229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}