{"id":122,"date":"2016-02-16T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.athemes.com\/astrid\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2019-09-02T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T18:11:20","slug":"project-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peytonfletcher.com\/index.php\/project-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0140436030\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0140436030&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=peytonfletche-20&amp;linkId=789d696ed984de23ee348e764eb86f71\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"223\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peytonfletcher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/The-Monk-1.jpg?resize=223%2C358\" alt=\"The Monk Cover\" class=\"wp-image-525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peytonfletcher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/The-Monk-1.jpg?w=223&amp;ssl=1 223w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peytonfletcher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/The-Monk-1.jpg?resize=187%2C300&amp;ssl=1 187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peytonfletcher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/The-Monk-1.jpg?resize=100%2C161&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">(England, 1796)&nbsp; Generally regarded as the most depraved and\ndemented of the original gothics, Matthew Lewis&#8217; 1796 classic serves up a\nhigh-energy brew of murder, rape, abduction, girls forced into convents, nuns\nsneaking out for their lovers, pregnant nuns languishing in dungeons, the\nInquisition, rioting, witchcraft, a malignant ghost, Satan himself and at least\nsix pairs of lovers.&nbsp; Cruelty abounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this roils around\nAmbrosio, a monastery-raised monk widely admired for his piety and moving\nsermons.&nbsp; He&#8217;s also very handsome and too\nna\u00efve to realize that the young boy who recently entered the monastery has ulterior\nmotives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now and then, Lewis\ntortures his prose like his characters, but cut him some slack:&nbsp; he banged it out in 10 weeks and there&#8217;s high\nemotion with erotic desire and\/or violence on almost page.\n\nAmazon has it on paperback, Kindle and Audible Audiobooks\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0140436030\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0140436030&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=peytonfletche-20&amp;linkId=789d696ed984de23ee348e764eb86f71\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Monk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(England, 1796)&nbsp; Generally regarded as the most depraved and demented of the original gothics, Matthew Lewis&#8217; 1796 classic serves up a high-energy brew of murder, rape, abduction, girls forced into convents, nuns sneaking out for their lovers, pregnant nuns languishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":519,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/single-project.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-122","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peytonfletcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peytonfletcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peytonfletcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peytonfletcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peytonfletcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/peytonfletcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/peytonfletcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peytonfletcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peytonfletcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}