{"id":42,"date":"2004-08-14T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2004-08-14T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-14T22:28:00","slug":"done-with-prayer-for-owen-_109252850449655829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/done-with-prayer-for-owen-_109252850449655829\/","title":{"rendered":"Done with &quot;A Prayer for Owen Meany&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based upon Justin&#8217;s friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/~fergusje\/blog\/\">Jean<\/a> I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/randomhouse\/catalog\/display.pperl?0679642595\">&#8220;A Prayer for Owen Meany&#8221;<\/a> by John Irving on April 25, 2004. It was on her top <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/~fergusje\/blog\/2004\/03\/favorite-book.htm\">five list<\/a> so I thought I&#8217;d give it a try. For some reason it didn&#8217;t catch me and I&#8217;ve struggled through it. Each morning I would read about two pages. It was very slow going for me. The novel&#8217;s timeframe was similar to my youth and college experiences, and many of the Vietnam references brought that time back to me. Some of that turmoil resurfaced that I had forgotten. The prose took me time to digest. Nevertheless this week with 150 pages to go I began to push to finish it, and today I did. That was only 3 1\/2 months &#8211; whew! Normally I get so involved in a book I can&#8217;t sleep and I read for hours at a time, but not this one. Now on to something lighter, more summer-ish, something I&#8217;ll enjoy. I&#8217;ve heard that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danbrown.com\/novels\/davinci_code\/reviews.html\">The Da Vinci Code<\/a> is a good read. Maybe that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based upon Justin&#8217;s friend Jean I bought &#8220;A Prayer for Owen Meany&#8221; by John Irving on April 25, 2004. It was on her top five list so I thought I&#8217;d give it a try. For some reason it didn&#8217;t catch me and I&#8217;ve struggled through it. Each morning I would read about two pages. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}