{"id":173,"date":"2008-01-23T21:38:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T02:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=173"},"modified":"2008-01-23T21:38:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T02:38:16","slug":"swanns-way-by-marcel-prousttrans-ck-scott-moncrieff-and-terence-kilmartinvintage-1989-this-translation-originally-chatto-windus-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/swanns-way-by-marcel-prousttrans-ck-scott-moncrieff-and-terence-kilmartinvintage-1989-this-translation-originally-chatto-windus-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Swann&#8217;s Way by Marcel Prousttrans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence KilmartinVintage, 1989 (this translation originally Chatto &#038; Windus, 1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading <em>Swann&#8217;s Way <\/em>slowly over the past month, enjoying Proust&#8217;s slow circling sentences (the kind you have to read twice because by the end you&#8217;ve lost track of where it started), enjoying the digressions, the flashes of humor in the dialogue, and enjoying, of course, all those sense-images (lilac trees, tisane, the light and heat of a summer day as perceived from a cool darkened room, the hawthorns in May, winter sun on an iron balustrade, pigeons in the park).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Swann&#8217;s Way slowly over the past month, enjoying Proust&#8217;s slow circling sentences (the kind you have to read twice because by the end you&#8217;ve lost track of where it started), enjoying the digressions, the flashes of humor in the dialogue, and enjoying, of course, all those sense-images (lilac trees, tisane, the light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-proust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","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=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}