{"id":1208,"date":"2009-06-06T11:36:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T11:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:25:59","slug":"fiction_eureka_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/06\/fiction_eureka_.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: Eureka Street, by Robert McLiam Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bought in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Really liked this book. Set in Belfast. Two down-n-out friends. Chuckie Lurgan, protestant, and Jake Jackson, catholic. They&#8217;re so scruffy and downtrodden, one would have to call them anti-heroes. It&#8217;s sarcastic and crass and rough and funny and unexpected. Very enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought in Dublin. Really liked this book. Set in Belfast. Two down-n-out friends. Chuckie Lurgan, protestant, and Jake Jackson, catholic. They&#8217;re so scruffy and downtrodden, one would have to call them anti-heroes. It&#8217;s sarcastic and crass and rough and funny &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/06\/fiction_eureka_.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":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","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=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3797,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}