{"id":706,"date":"2013-04-03T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=706"},"modified":"2013-04-03T13:02:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T18:02:39","slug":"when-a-book-breaks-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/03\/when-a-book-breaks-your-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"When A Book Breaks Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, a confession…I immediately started the third book of the\u00a0A Song of Ice and Fire<\/a>\u00a0series. In A Storm of Swords<\/a>, everything is in chaos. And, yesterday afternoon it broke my heart. All that hope I thought I saw in the second book evaporated in the space of three pages. Favorite characters were killed violently with little warning. (I know, I know, there was lots of foreshadowing but I guess I just didn’t want to believe it.)<\/p>\n

Now, in despair, I continue to read just waiting for the glimmer of hope to return. But, I’m not trusting that I will find it. Lovers are torn apart, horrible dead things stalk the land, women and child are murdered…and the evil people are really winning now. I may definitely have to take a break after book 3 for something a bit more upbeat.<\/p>\n

I did have a good laugh related to Game of Thrones. I stumbled on this music video by comedy group Axis of Awesome. It is, as they say, explicit: there’s bad language and a bit of nudity at the end. But, if you have reached the depths of despair along with me, it provides a little pick-me-up:<\/p>\n

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Your imagination is a fun place to explore…<\/p>\n

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First, a confession…I immediately started the third book of the\u00a0A Song of Ice and Fire\u00a0series. In A Storm of Swords, everything is in chaos. And, yesterday afternoon it broke my heart. All that hope I thought I saw in the second book evaporated in the space of three pages. Favorite \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[11],"tags":[136],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}