{"id":706,"date":"2007-12-10T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=706"},"modified":"2007-12-10T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T20:15:00","slug":"fictional_memoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/fictional_memoi.html","title":{"rendered":"(Fictional?) Memoir: &#8220;The Life of Hunger&#8221; by Amelie Nothomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An somewhat philosophical memoir of hunger, being hungry, (at some points, actually anorexic), but also of being sated, in all of their various meanings: not just physically, but also emotionally, intellectually, etc.  Also a book about &#8220;home&#8221;, going there, leaving, about living places that aren&#8217;t that.  A book about feeling lost and alone even within the midst of your own family, let alone a strange city, school, country etc.<br \/>\nVery good.  A very slim, quick read.  But weighty in thought.<br \/>\n<em>I thought I knew the meaning of the word &#8216;big&#8217;.  You have to have driven across the United States before you can have any idea of what that means: whole days of straight road without seeing a single human being.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>My parents were forty, the age at which you pull up your sleeves and put your responsibility to the test of work.<\/em>  [Really?  Uh oh!  Danger ahead!]<br \/>\n<em>Is it not enough to have some very good chocolate in your mouth, not only to believe in God, but also to feel that one is in his presence?  God isn&#8217;t chocolate, he&#8217;s the encounter between chocolate and a palate capable of appreciating it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An somewhat philosophical memoir of hunger, being hungry, (at some points, actually anorexic), but also of being sated, in all of their various meanings: not just physically, but also emotionally, intellectually, etc. Also a book about &#8220;home&#8221;, going there, leaving, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/fictional_memoi.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":[13,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-lit_quotes","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}