{"id":690,"date":"2008-12-12T15:34:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T19:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=690"},"modified":"2008-12-12T15:35:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T19:35:51","slug":"the-amnesiac-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2008\/12\/the-amnesiac-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amnesiac, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, so it&#8217;s a little silly that I&#8217;m reblogging <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2008\/08\/a-good-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">my own content<\/a>, so let&#8217;s just get that out of the way up front.\u00a0 Ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tamnesiac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-691\" title=\"The Amnesiac\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tamnesiac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m right in the middle of reading <em><strong>The Amnesiac<\/strong><\/em> by Sam Taylor right now, and it&#8217;s amazing.\u00a0 One of those books that makes you miss your subway stop.\u00a0 It has an introspective, existential tone reminiscent of Camus or Kafka, but without the sinister edge.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s one of those great pieces of literature that keeps shifting underneath you as you read it &#8212; so just when you think you have it figured out, it changes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s excellent.\u00a0 You should definitely check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the original post from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veryshortlist.com\/vsl\/daily.cfm\/review\/531\/Book\/the-amnesiac\/?tp\" target=\"_blank\">VSL<\/a>, if you want to know more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, so it&#8217;s a little silly that I&#8217;m reblogging my own content, so let&#8217;s just get that out of the way up front.\u00a0 Ridiculous. Anyway&#8230; I&#8217;m right in the middle of reading The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor right now, and it&#8217;s amazing.\u00a0 One of those books that makes you miss your subway stop.\u00a0 It has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[126,302,301],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-books","tag-sam-taylor","tag-the-amnesiac"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}