{"id":184,"date":"2006-08-31T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T11:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=184"},"modified":"2011-11-10T18:44:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T00:44:53","slug":"aussie_slap_dow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/08\/aussie_slap_dow.html","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Slap-Down."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t hate Peter Carey the way this guy does, but I did find <a href=\"http:\/\/sternezine.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/booker-review-theft-peter-carey.html\">this review of Carey&#8217;s latest <\/a>to be very hilarious.  I find Carey more&#8230;weird&#8230;and unsettling&#8230;rather than &#8220;bad&#8221;.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unusual-Tristan-Smith-Vintage-International\/dp\/0679760369\/sr=1-11\/qid=1157040769\/ref=sr_1_11\/104-9515616-5458325?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\">The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith<\/a> for example, really creeped me out.  But I didn&#8217;t think it was badly written.  (Oscar and Lucinda was a very weird movie.  Not necessarily bad, but definitely weird. Why?  Because it was based on a Carey book!)<\/p>\n<p>That said, I think his commenters are dead wrong on Tim Winton.  As you may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/readin.html\">remember<\/a>, I LOVED LOVED LOVED Cloud Street and highly recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t hate Peter Carey the way this guy does, but I did find this review of Carey&#8217;s latest to be very hilarious. I find Carey more&#8230;weird&#8230;and unsettling&#8230;rather than &#8220;bad&#8221;. The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith for example, really creeped &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/08\/aussie_slap_dow.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}