{"id":643,"date":"2007-10-23T09:37:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=643"},"modified":"2007-10-23T09:37:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T09:37:23","slug":"fiction_the_rai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/fiction_the_rai.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: &#8220;The Rain Before It Falls&#8221; by Jonathan Coe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really touching, slowly moving story.  Told by a great-aunt, recording memories into a tape recorder, centered around pictures of relevant events.  A really strong sense of time and place.  A story about family and generations and what a child takes with them, even if unwillingly, from their parents.  A story of cousins, become friends, and then estranged.  A story of loves and jealousies and anguish and (some) joy.  Really lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really touching, slowly moving story. Told by a great-aunt, recording memories into a tape recorder, centered around pictures of relevant events. A really strong sense of time and place. A story about family and generations and what a child takes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/fiction_the_rai.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":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","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\/643","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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}