{"id":38,"date":"2007-02-17T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T01:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2015-06-03T20:19:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T02:19:57","slug":"the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"The Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by John Banville, 2005<\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting book about the reminiscences of an older gentleman about his youth and the woman he married.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a bit hard to follow at times, but the author paints an interesting picture of how one&#8217;s memories are muddied as one ages and also how an individual deals with the present.\u00c2\u00a0 One warning, however:\u00c2\u00a0it is very sad.<\/p>\n<p>Another aspect of the book is the author&#8217;s use of a quite extended vocabulary.\u00c2\u00a0 The list of words that I don&#8217;t recognize includes: revenant,\u00c2\u00a0plimsoll, apotropaic, strangury, moue, costiveness.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess I will have to dig out the dictionary\u00c2\u00a0to see what\u00c2\u00a0I missed when I read\u00c2\u00a0the book.\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 1\/2 stars\" src=\"\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Banville, 2005 This is an interesting book about the reminiscences of an older gentleman about his youth and the woman he married.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a bit hard to follow at times, but the author paints an interesting picture <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=38\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}