{"id":1118,"date":"2011-07-31T16:47:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T15:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2011-07-31T16:50:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T15:50:35","slug":"the-war-and-peace-o-meter-week-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/the-war-and-peace-o-meter-week-six\/","title":{"rendered":"The War-and-Peace-O-Meter: Week Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style='width: 400px; float: left;'>\nPrevious weeks: <a href='\/blog\/archives\/722'>0<\/a>, <a href='\/blog\/archives\/836'>1<\/a>, <a href='\/blog\/archives\/873'>2<\/a>, <a href='\/blog\/archives\/882'>3<\/a>, <a href='\/blog\/archives\/924'>4<\/a>, <a href='\/blog\/archives\/931'>5<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<div  style='width: 90px; height: 370px; padding: 5px; float: right; border: 2px solid maroon; background: white; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;'>\n<div class=\"ometer_coloured\">\n<div id=\"mask\" class=\"ometer_mask\" style='height: 246px;'>\n<div id=\"ometer\">\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style='width: 400px; float: left;'>\nAfter a hiatus of three weeks, during which I found that <a href='\/blog\/archives\/category\/paternal'>newborn babies<\/a> and immense works of Russian literature do not really complement each other, I&#8217;ve been making good progress with the absorbing drama of the first part of volume two. I&#8217;m congenitally unable to not have a book on the go, however, so sought out some more light-hearted reading material for the Little Monkey&#8217;s first few weeks. (Not that <em>War and Peace<\/em> lacks for (wry) humour, but it does demand the reader&#8217;s attention.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>East of Ealing<\/em>, by Robert Rankin, was the best so far of the Brentford Trilogy &#8211; it&#8217;s third in a series of five &#8211; although still not a match for his <em>Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse<\/em>. And a <a href='\/blog\/archives\/927'>chance encounter with a Kurt Vonnegut quote<\/a> impelled me to read <em>God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater<\/em>, which was every bit as splendid as I hoped it would be. I don&#8217;t know why it&#8217;s taken me so long to read something by Vonnegut, he&#8217;s exactly the sort of writer that appeals to my tastes; I shall have a couple of his other works cued up for when I&#8217;ve finished <em>War and Peace<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous weeks: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 After a hiatus of three weeks, during which I found that newborn babies and immense works of Russian literature do not really complement each other, I&#8217;ve been making good progress with the absorbing drama of the first part of volume two. I&#8217;m congenitally unable to not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}