{"id":2666,"date":"2025-04-22T01:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T01:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/?post_type=book&#038;p=2666"},"modified":"2025-04-22T01:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T01:37:23","slug":"the-stepford-wives","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/book\/the-stepford-wives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stepford Wives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\">For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town&#8217;s idyllic facade lies a terrible secret\u2014a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.<br><br>At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, <em>The Stepford Wives<\/em> is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Hey! <s>This isn&#8217;t our first rodeo with Ira Levin.<\/s> Never mind, I thought I wrote about Rosemary&#8217;s Baby and was shocked to find that I hadn&#8217;t. I read Rosemary&#8217;s Baby before I started writing. I think. I don&#8217;t know, man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In any case, this is a short, easy read. I picked it up because it&#8217;s pretty much a core piece of horror in the American lexicon. It&#8217;s a good, strong read\u2014 MC moves in. MC tries to push for women&#8217;s rights. The slow dawning realization of everything going horribly wrong happens with the reader and MC at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And by the time Joanna realizes she&#8217;s fucked, it&#8217;s too late, man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town&#8217;s idyllic facade lies a terrible secret\u2014a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same. At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2667,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[5,24],"genre":[348,275,280],"rating":[309],"series":[],"smut_stuff":[],"trigger_warning":[608,293,353],"trope":[],"class_list":["post-2666","book","type-book","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-novella","genre-adult","genre-horror","genre-scifi","rating-309","trigger_warning-controlling-relationship","trigger_warning-domestic-violence","trigger_warning-mysogyny"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"smut_stuff","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/smut_stuff?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"trigger_warning","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trigger_warning?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}