{"id":5203,"date":"2012-06-27T05:59:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T10:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2012-06-27T06:12:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T11:12:08","slug":"had-to-clear-the-palate-for-a-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5203","title":{"rendered":"Had to  clear the palate for a bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>read all the Cormack McCarthy books and went right back to reading Discworld again, front to back. The second time through you notice things you didn&#8217;t the first time, and it makes it all that much better. <\/p>\n<p>Odd to think of McCarthy cleansing the palate, but it was a serious change of pace. His dialog makes you work pretty hard at it, but it&#8217;s impressively done. <\/p>\n<p>Also read Gaiman&#8217;s &#8220;Neverwhere&#8221;. Only Gaiman could take something as old and stilted as the &#8220;man loses everything and has to fight his way back to normalcy&#8221; genre and make it interesting enough that I stayed up all night reading it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>read all the Cormack McCarthy books and went right back to reading Discworld again, front to back. The second time through you notice things you didn&#8217;t the first time, and it makes it all that much better. Odd to think of McCarthy cleansing the palate, but it was a serious change of pace. His dialog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}