{"id":5191,"date":"2014-05-05T07:12:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T06:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2014-10-15T07:15:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T06:15:31","slug":"skagboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5191","title":{"rendered":"Skagboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Skagboys-Irvine-Welsh\/dp\/0224087908\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Skagboys.jpeg\" alt=\"Skagboys\" width=\"300\" height=\"456\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5459\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I applied Sarah&#8217;s Rule and read 100 pages of this.  There is a very funny bit:  Renton and his colleagues have a regular competition to see who can do the biggest poos (on newspaper, for measuring).  This time their boss is on his way to the toilet so they have to &#8216;pick up the papers, open the windaes and fling oor bombs oantae the flat roof&#8217; before the boss catches them.<\/p>\n<p>But there isn&#8217;t anything noteworthy about the rest.  I&#8217;ve read 105 pages &#8211; the whole first part &#8211; and there isn&#8217;t anything pushing me to read on.  The stuff that is good has been done before; if I&#8217;d never met Begbie in Trainspotting I might have found him more amusing\/shocking, but I have already met him before.  I first read Trainspotting when I was about 18 and I was totally blown away by it.  I remember enjoying it just as much the second time I read it but, on reading it again some years later, I&#8217;d had enough of it.  Perhaps that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m not interested enough in Skagboys. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I applied Sarah&#8217;s Rule and read 100 pages of this. There is a very funny bit: Renton and his colleagues have a regular competition to see who can do the biggest poos (on newspaper, for measuring). This time their boss is on his way to the toilet so they have to &#8216;pick up the papers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5460,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}