{"id":1370,"date":"2010-02-06T09:17:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T09:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2011-11-10T18:34:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T00:34:59","slug":"fiction_man_wal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/02\/fiction_man_wal.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: Man Walks Into a Room, by Nicole Krauss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really had to force myself through this one.  It&#8217;s a bit cold and most of the characters I found extremely difficult to connect with (or even to want to).<\/p>\n<p>However, I absolutely adore (ADORE!) her next book <strong>&#8220;The History of Love&#8221;<\/strong> and I would highly recommend you read that one (instead of this OR any other book!).  (Search <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/readin.html\">this page<\/a> for the title or author to hear my enthusiasm.  It was one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2005\/12\/girlreaction_reads_best_of_200_1.html\">very favorite reads of 2005<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really had to force myself through this one. It&#8217;s a bit cold and most of the characters I found extremely difficult to connect with (or even to want to). However, I absolutely adore (ADORE!) her next book &#8220;The History &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/02\/fiction_man_wal.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-1370","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\/1370","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=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}