{"id":14947,"date":"2016-02-19T19:23:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=14947"},"modified":"2016-02-19T19:23:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:23:28","slug":"a-bad-day-for-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=14947","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Day for Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Harper Lee dies, and now comes word that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-35620368\">Umberto Eco died at age 84 today<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed both <b>The Name of the Rose<\/b> and <b>Foucault&#8217;s Pendulum<\/b>, even though I knew at the time I was probably missing many of the literary in-jokes. <b>The Name of the Rose<\/b> in particular is well worth reading, as you&#8217;d never believe a 30 page discussion of various medieval Christian heresies could ever be so incredibly funny&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Harper Lee dies, and now comes word that Umberto Eco died at age 84 today as well. I enjoyed both The Name of the Rose and Foucault&#8217;s Pendulum, even though I knew at the time I was probably missing many of the literary in-jokes. The Name of the Rose in particular is well worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[1973,597,2067],"class_list":["post-14947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-books","tag-obituary","tag-umberto-eco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14952,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions\/14952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}