{"id":252,"date":"2006-09-05T08:56:36","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T15:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2006-09-05T08:56:36","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T15:56:36","slug":"lives-however-picaresque-matter-less-to-posterity-than-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Lives, however picaresque, matter less to posterity than works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the British. As an English Lit major and the daughter of an avid British poetry fan, it&#8217;s only natural that I suffer from significant Anglophilia. And <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/books\/283569_literaryhoax05.html\">here<\/a>, yet another reason to love those loony limeys.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, seriously. Who else can be so catty and so well-spoken at the same time as a bitter, old Brit?:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How utterly pitiable to be some old bachelor in a Hiram&#8217;s Hospital, smock-clad like a pauper in the reign of Henry VIII, dripping resentment like the dottle from a smelly churchwarden&#8217;s pipe&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant. Simply brilliant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/books\/283569_literaryhoax05.html\">London literary hoax is its own whodunit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the British. As an English Lit major and the daughter of an avid British poetry fan, it&#8217;s only natural that I suffer from significant Anglophilia. And here, yet another reason to love those loony limeys. I mean, seriously. Who else can be so catty and so well-spoken at the same time as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}