{"id":336,"date":"2012-11-16T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/theideamagazine\/?p=336"},"modified":"2014-02-07T23:51:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T23:51:35","slug":"merry-ex-mas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/merry-ex-mas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Ex-Mas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><\/p>\n<div>Merry Ex-Mas<\/div>\n<div>Sheila Roberts<\/div>\n<div>\u00a9 Lydia Lowe&nbsp; 11\/13\/2012<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/theideamagazine\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ac2b65456d_6291958.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/theideamagazine\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ac2b65456d_6291958.jpg\" width=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I received an advance copy of this book in the mail and I&#8217;ll have to say that after reading the dust jacket notes about what this book was about, I wasn&#8217;t all that interested in reading it.&nbsp; Women and their ex&#8217;s during the holidays?&nbsp;&nbsp; I read the book anyway, and I am so glad that I did.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The book draws you into the town of Icicle Falls where we meet Cass Wilkes, owner of the Gingerbread Haus, who is an extraordinary baker.&nbsp; There&#8217;s Ella O&#8217;Brien, who owns Gilded Lily&#8217;s which is a clothing store, and then there&#8217;s Charlene (Charley) Albach, the owner of Zelda&#8217;s, a fine dining establishment.&nbsp; We also meet their ex&#8217;s: Mason Wilkes, Jack O&#8217;Brien and Richard Albach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Set against the backdrop of Cass&#8217;s daughter, Dani&#8217;s upcoming wedding, and the beginning of the holiday season, all hearts converge on Icicle Falls.&nbsp; I won&#8217;t give away what happens, but the themes of understanding, reconciliation and betrayal all make an appearance.&nbsp; But there is so much more.&nbsp;&nbsp; You&#8217;ll have to read the book to find out about the lives and loves of Icicle Falls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I enjoyed this book so very much.&nbsp; I just wanted to move to Icicle Falls and hang out with the characters in the book.&nbsp; The women in the book seemed like good friends that I was catching up with while I read the book.&nbsp; This book was easy to read, moved along at a steady pace and kept my attention throughout.&nbsp;&nbsp; Definitely a must read!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Ex-Mas Sheila Roberts \u00a9 Lydia Lowe&nbsp; 11\/13\/2012 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I received an advance copy of this book in the mail and I&#8217;ll have to say that after reading the dust jacket notes about what this book was about, I wasn&#8217;t all that interested in reading it.&nbsp; Women and their ex&#8217;s during the holidays?&nbsp;&nbsp; I read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-revue"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}