{"id":731,"date":"2007-05-31T23:09:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T04:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/31\/haruki-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T04:09:03","slug":"haruki-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Haruki Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m three-quarters of the way through a book of his short stories, <em>Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman,<\/em> and one-quarter of the way through his newest novel, <em>after Dark,<\/em> and I can&#8217;t stop reading.<\/p>\n<p>I find that there is something so utterly contemporary and surprising about his writing &#8211; reading him is like going out for the night and not having any plans &#8211; you can end up anywhere, with anybody, and it is all so vastly interesting. He reminds me of a lighter Jim Jarmusch&#8230; He is absolutely my favorite writer at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>A quote from &#8220;A Perfect Day for Kangaroos,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I gave up and started leafing through the newspaper. I&#8217;d never once won an argument with a girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m three-quarters of the way through a book of his short stories, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, and one-quarter of the way through his newest novel, after Dark, and I can&#8217;t stop reading. I find that there is something so utterly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=731\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}