{"id":908,"date":"2005-06-11T18:11:03","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T06:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=908"},"modified":"2005-06-11T18:11:19","modified_gmt":"2005-06-11T06:11:19","slug":"man-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/908","title":{"rendered":"<em>Man Alone<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished <em>Man Alone<\/em> by John Mulgan today. What a great title. I read it because so far I&#8217;ve not read much of what I suppose you&#8217;d call the New Zealand canon, and I want to get up to speed. Now that I&#8217;ve finished I say it was worth the read. Part Two really changed the feel of the book for me. When I&#8217;d only read Part One it felt like a bit of a ramble, a meaningless meander &ndash; and in a sense it is, that&#8217;s the point, it&#8217;s a life of a man bouncing around groundless, pragmatic and reacting, but not crushed. It&#8217;s about the principalities and powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished Man Alone by John Mulgan today. What a great title. I read it because so far I&#8217;ve not read much of what I suppose you&#8217;d call the New Zealand canon, and I want to get up to speed. Now that I&#8217;ve finished I say it was worth the read. Part Two really changed [&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-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}