{"id":1144,"date":"2008-12-03T14:23:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T21:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/12\/grace-before-meat\/"},"modified":"2008-12-03T19:56:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T02:56:23","slug":"grace-before-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/03\/grace-before-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Before Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/gallery\/2008\/nov\/27\/mills-and-boon-covers?picture=340129693\" target=\"_blank\">from The Guardian UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/gallery\/2008\/nov\/27\/mills-and-boon-covers?picture=340129693\" title=\"Grace Before Meat (you really just can't say that phrase enough) Grace Before Meat\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/About\/General\/2008\/11\/27\/1227791438624\/Gallery-Mills-and-Boon-Mi-001.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"400\" width=\"267\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>These days an adjective recognised in the OED, Mills &amp; Boon has become a genre unto itself over its 100-year history. To mark its centenary, The Art of Romance tells the publisher&#8217;s story with a century&#8217;s worth of covers. Here is a selection, offering fascinating insights into the changing meaning of &#8216;romance&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the gallery, there&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/competition\/2008\/dec\/03\/mills-and-boon-covers-competition\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #00c7ff; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">a chance for you to win your own copy<\/a>\u00a0of the complete book, with a competition to come up with the most accurate, or funny, or simply\u00a0<em style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">darling<\/em>\u00a0alternative title for the cover with its name blanked out. Here&#8217;s looking at you.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/gallery\/2008\/nov\/27\/mills-and-boon-covers?picture=340129693\" target=\"_blank\">click to view slideshow and enter contest to win Grace Before Meat &amp; more!<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian UK These days an adjective recognised in the OED, Mills &amp; Boon has become a genre unto itself over its 100-year history. To mark its centenary, The Art of Romance tells the publisher&#8217;s story with a century&#8217;s worth of covers. Here is a selection, offering fascinating insights into the changing meaning of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}