{"id":5901,"date":"2015-04-09T00:02:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T23:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2015-06-13T19:06:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:06:41","slug":"the-thoughts-and-happenings-of-wilfred-price-purveyor-of-superior-funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5901","title":{"rendered":"The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Thoughts-Happenings-Purveyor-Superior-Funerals\/dp\/1780335814\/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Wilfred_Price.jpg\" alt=\"Wilfred_Price\" width=\"180\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5902\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a book group choice.  Very slow-moving at first but picks up momentum later.  There is a major heart-in-mouth moment when Wilfred is about to consummate his marriage.  <\/p>\n<p>Quietly bleak, beautifully written with well developed characters.  Reminds me a little of Ian McEwan&#8217;s On Chesil Beach.  Would recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a book group choice. Very slow-moving at first but picks up momentum later. There is a major heart-in-mouth moment when Wilfred is about to consummate his marriage. Quietly bleak, beautifully written with well developed characters. Reminds me a little of Ian McEwan&#8217;s On Chesil Beach. Would recommend.<\/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-5901","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\/5901","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=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5907,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions\/5907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}