{"id":410,"date":"2026-03-11T12:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/?p=410"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:59:15","slug":"book-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Book Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, September 15th, at 6:30 p.m. we will be meeting to discuss Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Jamaica Inn<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. Set in Cornwall\u00a0around 1815, it was inspired by du Maurier&#8217;s 1930 stay at the actual\u00a0Jamaica Inn, which still exists as a pub on Bodmin Moor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plot follows Mary Yellan, a young woman who moves to Jamaica Inn to stay with her Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss after the death of her mother. She quickly discovers that the inn is an unsavoury place, mistrusted by the locals, and that her uncle is closely linked with a group of suspicious men.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">                                                                                                                                             <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-464\" style=\"width:121px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, September 15th, at 6:30 p.m. we will be meeting to discuss Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier. Jamaica Inn\u00a0is a novel by the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umberhine.lib.me.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}