{"id":21699,"date":"2025-12-22T07:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/this-must-be-the-place\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:03:15","slug":"this-must-be-the-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/this-must-be-the-place\/","title":{"rendered":"This must be the place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read: This must be the place by Maggie O&#039;Farrell \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You see, my mother\u2019s idea of a good time was to spend the evening re-reading The Divine Comedy, whereas my father liked to have several beers and watch the game. That they were woefully mismatched seemed a given, a background presence in our lives; like others of their generation, they just got on with it, circling around each other, making the best of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tale with a host of  POVs, locations &amp; dates, all somewhat mixed up, circle round the two principals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every character has connections &amp; disconnections, problems &amp; strengths.  Some are improbably gifted &amp; unusual but that didn&#039;t stop my engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read: This must be the place by Maggie O&#039;Farrell \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da; You see, my mother\u2019s idea of a good time was to spend the evening re-reading The Divine Comedy, whereas my father liked to have several beers and watch the game. That they were woefully mismatched seemed a given, a background presence in our lives; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[898],"tags":[1736,1597],"post_format":[642],"class_list":["post-21699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","category-book","tag-maggie-ofarrell","tag-1597","post_format-post-format-status","kind-article","h-entry","hentry"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5DZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21699"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=21699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}