{"id":78,"date":"2006-04-23T13:24:03","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T17:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=78"},"modified":"2006-04-23T13:24:03","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T17:24:03","slug":"the-night-watch-by-sarah-watersriverhead-penguin-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-night-watch-by-sarah-watersriverhead-penguin-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Watch by Sarah WatersRiverhead (Penguin), 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story told backwards; a story of how people came to be where (who) they are. The start of the first sentence: &#8220;<i>So this<\/i>, said Kay to herself, <i> is the kind of person you&#8217;ve become: a person whose clocks and wristwatches have stopped<\/i> [&#8230;]&#8221; Elsewhere, Kay remarks that people&#8217;s pasts are &#8220;so much more interesting than their futures&#8221;&#8212;and I&#8217;m not sure I agree, but in the context of this novel, it works. Waters sets her characters in motion and leaves us wondering how they&#8217;re all connected, because it&#8217;s clear that they must be. That kind of unravelling, that kind of revelation, is just as interesting as a forward-moving plot. (And oh, London-stories, cityscapes!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story told backwards; a story of how people came to be where (who) they are. The start of the first sentence: &#8220;So this, said Kay to herself, is the kind of person you&#8217;ve become: a person whose clocks and wristwatches have stopped [&#8230;]&#8221; Elsewhere, Kay remarks that people&#8217;s pasts are &#8220;so much more interesting [&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-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}