{"id":1996,"date":"2009-03-25T20:20:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2020-11-15T14:37:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T09:07:42","slug":"the-grass-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2009\/03\/25\/the-grass-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grass Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Colleen Mc Cullough<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quite a superb sequel to &#8220;The First Man in Rome&#8221; with an expanded set of characters and perhaps a canvass larger than its predecessor.<br \/>\nCentered around the war against Italia, the growing rift between two towering personalities and former friends, and the depths to which a person&#8217;s ego can lead him, this book also sets up Julius Caesar perfectly, illustrating his character wonderfully.<br \/>\nGaius Marius, in search of his seventh consulship (which others have deemed impossible), with a fervour that finally derails his brilliant mind; Sulla, seeking his first consulship and the greatness that he believes is deservedly his, only to come up against Marius; the young Caesar, watching, learning, and becoming increasingly sure of his destiny; Rome, a state like no other, becoming the playground of men whose fanatical belief in themselves have caused them to make a mockery of the society they lived in. Power, by whatever means necessary.<br \/>\nAnd now, to get myself a copy of &#8220;Fortune&#8217;s Favourites&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.flipkart.com\/affiliateiframe.php?bc=FFFFFF&#038;tc=000000&#038;lc=0000FF&#038;buy=yes&#038;isbn=0099462494&#038;affid=INmanublo&#038;type=3&#038;border=yes\"   style=\"width:120px;height:260px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleen Mc Cullough Quite a superb sequel to &#8220;The First Man in Rome&#8221; with an expanded set of characters and perhaps a canvass larger than its predecessor. Centered around the war against Italia, the growing rift between two towering personalities and former friends, and the depths to which a person&#8217;s ego can lead him, this <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2009\/03\/25\/the-grass-crown\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,6007],"tags":[888,907],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fiction","tag-colleen-mccullough","tag-the-grass-crown"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14715,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/14715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}