{"id":6228,"date":"2016-11-03T14:20:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T14:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6228"},"modified":"2016-11-03T14:20:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T14:20:49","slug":"the-strangers-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6228","title":{"rendered":"The Stranger&#8217;s Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Strangers-Child-Alan-Hollinghurst\/dp\/0330483277\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Strangers_Child.jpg\" alt=\"Strangers_Child\" width=\"900\" height=\"1364\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read this for book group.  I enjoyed Part 1, delighting in the language and sharp observations of his characters&#8217; encounters with each other, but the book quickly became tedious and I was frustrated with so many new characters being introduced.  It seemed absurd that so many of the characters were gay men.  At the end, I didn&#8217;t know what I was supposed to learn, if anything.  I&#8217;ve come away feeling that this is probably a good book but maybe I&#8217;ve missed something&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this for book group. I enjoyed Part 1, delighting in the language and sharp observations of his characters&#8217; encounters with each other, but the book quickly became tedious and I was frustrated with so many new characters being introduced. It seemed absurd that so many of the characters were gay men. At the end, [&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-6228","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\/6228","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=6228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6231,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions\/6231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}