{"id":723,"date":"2008-01-03T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=723"},"modified":"2011-09-17T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T21:44:24","slug":"fiction_ludmill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/01\/fiction_ludmill.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: &#8220;Ludmilla&#8217;s Broken English&#8221; by DBC Pierre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two divergent storylines that eventually come together: a) conjoined twins (now separated) experiencing freedom from institutions for the first time and b) a Russian peasant girl at sea in a world of poverty and war.<\/p>\n<p>Slapstick and comedic. I continue to be impressed by Pierre&#8217;s ability to write for ANY voice: this is a complete departure from his previous (Booker-prize winning), and very dialectic, <strong>Vernon God Little<\/strong>.  Not a departure, however, in its brusque, harsh humor.  I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two divergent storylines that eventually come together: a) conjoined twins (now separated) experiencing freedom from institutions for the first time and b) a Russian peasant girl at sea in a world of poverty and war. Slapstick and comedic. I continue &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/01\/fiction_ludmill.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-723","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\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}