{"id":1666,"date":"2020-10-26T19:37:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T02:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/10\/26\/the-midnights-children-meander-week-11\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T02:37:03","slug":"the-midnights-children-meander-week-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/10\/26\/the-midnights-children-meander-week-11\/","title":{"rendered":"The Midnight’s Children Meander, Week 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week it seemed like history and fiction were spinning faster and faster together in a tight grip, all I’m sure leading to a dizzying conclusion. <\/p>\n

We also got another quick recap of much of what’s happened before, another mad dose of the rhythm Rushdie has been laying down throughout. Back and forth, back and forth — prophecy and recap and prophecy. DJ Rushdie on the 1s and 2s and 1s.<\/p>\n

Also, am I the only one who thought that meeting a man who “resembled a large and bearded onion” was inevitable? I was like: finally!<\/p>\n

One last thought: After Meandering through two faux memoirs in a row (See also: The Blind Assassin Meander<\/a><\/em>) I’m wondering if the faux-memoir genre has some built-in limitations. It’s hard-wired to be an ego trip. There are no female characters who seem real in Midnight’s Children, <\/em>but I’m not sure there’s anyone besides our faux memoirist who has three full dimensions. <\/p>\n

Still, very glad to be finally reading this book after all these many years. And equally delighted to be headed toward…<\/p>\n

…the last five-chip whopper:<\/strong> What say we meet at the back cover, where we may or may not find “peace.” As always, I believe deeply in you and your complicated-book-completion skills!<\/p>\n

And this? <\/strong>This is the place for comments on really anything you’d like vis a vis Midnight’s Children<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week it seemed like history and fiction were spinning faster and faster together in a tight grip, all I’m sure leading to a dizzying conclusion. We also got another quick recap of much of what’s happened before, another mad dose of the rhythm Rushdie has been laying down throughout. Back and forth, back and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}