{"id":1198,"date":"2009-06-06T09:59:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T09:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:35:48","slug":"short_stories_t-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/06\/short_stories_t-5.html","title":{"rendered":"Short Stories: The Feminists Go Swimming, by Michael Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bought in Dublin, Collins is a writer I&#8217;ve read in the past and often had a hard time finding his books in the US (I&#8217;ve occasionally ordered them from Amazon UK) so I was on the lookout for him.<\/p>\n<p>These stories are such a unique combination of funny and harsh: you&#8217;re sometimes embarrassed to be laughing at the funny parts, particularly as they&#8217;re so quickly followed by the serious and dark.<\/p>\n<p>Catholics dealing with the prophesised end of the world; the portioning out throughout the day as an alcoholic drinks himself to death&#8230; I think my favorite may have been &#8220;The Horses&#8221; where a man is a wildly accurate race picker to no benefit to himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought in Dublin, Collins is a writer I&#8217;ve read in the past and often had a hard time finding his books in the US (I&#8217;ve occasionally ordered them from Amazon UK) so I was on the lookout for him. These &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/06\/short_stories_t-5.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":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","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=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}