{"id":112,"date":"2006-12-30T22:08:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T02:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=112"},"modified":"2006-12-30T22:08:57","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T02:08:57","slug":"when-we-were-orphans-by-kazuo-ishiguroalfred-a-knopf-2000-originally-faber-and-faber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/when-we-were-orphans-by-kazuo-ishiguroalfred-a-knopf-2000-originally-faber-and-faber\/","title":{"rendered":"When We Were Orphans by Kazuo IshiguroAlfred A. Knopf,  2000 (originally Faber and Faber)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narrative restraint; a narrator who&#8217;s unreliable because memory is unreliable, and memory that&#8217;s unreliable for so many reasons &#8212;distance, pride&#8212;and  what happens when that unreliability affects everyday events, when it affects what happens now and not just how we remember things. This is an elegant book, a quiet book, also perhaps a sad book, in the moments when the reader sees what the narrator doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narrative restraint; a narrator who&#8217;s unreliable because memory is unreliable, and memory that&#8217;s unreliable for so many reasons &#8212;distance, pride&#8212;and what happens when that unreliability affects everyday events, when it affects what happens now and not just how we remember things. This is an elegant book, a quiet book, also perhaps a sad book, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}