{"id":1022,"date":"2008-10-12T14:05:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T14:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2011-08-25T23:00:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T04:00:14","slug":"challenge_08_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/10\/challenge_08_up.html","title":{"rendered":"Challenge &#8217;08 Update."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are tweaking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/02\/dads_and_my_rea.html\">our challenge<\/a> slightly.<\/p>\n<p>In July, we both only got through the first half (it was THICK).  And in August, we finished (eventually. Or I did, a few days into September, can&#8217;t remember if Dad actually did or not) but we did NOT enjoy the book and have no interest in reading part II (which was the book for October).<\/p>\n<p>So we are scratching October&#8217;s choice and reading the second half of the July book this month.<\/p>\n<p>In case you were wondering.<br \/>\n<u>October<\/u>:<S> &#8220;The Man Without Qualities, Vol 2&#8221; by Robert Musil<\/S>Second half of &#8220;The New Granta Book of the American Short Story&#8221; edited by Richard Ford<br \/>\n<u>November<\/u>: &#8220;The Oxford Book of Short Stories&#8221; edited by V.S. Pritchett<br \/>\n<u>December<\/u>: &#8220;The Trial&#8221; by Kafka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are tweaking our challenge slightly. In July, we both only got through the first half (it was THICK). And in August, we finished (eventually. Or I did, a few days into September, can&#8217;t remember if Dad actually did or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/10\/challenge_08_up.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,39,22,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-challenge_08","category-dadreaction","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}