{"id":883,"date":"2005-05-13T00:32:06","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T11:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=883"},"modified":"2005-05-13T00:54:59","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T11:54:59","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/883","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read two books this week: <em>Slowness<\/em> by Milan Kundera, and <em>Sweet Dreams<\/em> by Michael Frayn. They were both a good ride while they lasted. To varying extents they both I felt pinned me, like J Alfred Prufrock, forumlated, sprawling on a pin, wriggling on the wall. In fact <em>Slowness<\/em> lept out of my hands and slapped me across the face more than once. I turned the other cheek, but you probably shouldn&#8217;t read it if you don&#8217;t like the word &#8216;asshole&#8217;. Frayn&#8217;s book, like <em>The Office<\/em> is a sort of <em>via negativa<\/em> on the good life. It does get a bit lost towards the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read two books this week: Slowness by Milan Kundera, and Sweet Dreams by Michael Frayn. They were both a good ride while they lasted. To varying extents they both I felt pinned me, like J Alfred Prufrock, forumlated, sprawling on a pin, wriggling on the wall. In fact Slowness lept out of my hands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}