{"id":371,"date":"2006-05-24T20:43:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T20:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2006\/05\/24\/the-don-quixote-deathmarch-week-9\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T20:43:50","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T20:43:50","slug":"the-don-quixote-deathmarch-week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2006\/05\/24\/the-don-quixote-deathmarch-week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"The Don Quixote Deathmarch, Week 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my stars and garters &#8212; Week 9!, <i>wherein both marchers errant and their faithful squires cavort, with strange and pleasing results.<\/i> As Mr. Magoo pointed in last week&#8217;s comments, we&#8217;ve hit a heckuva milestone by flipping past page 400 (Grossman). And you know what they say about <i>Don Quixote<\/i>: the last 540 pages are the easiest.<br \/>\nFor me, this last patch wasn&#8217;t quite up to the level of, say, the tale of Zoraida and the Captain, which was a pure page-turning treat. But I&#8217;m glad we&#8217;ve left that inn, at least for a stretch. It was starting to get kinda claustrophobic in there &#8212; like some sort of 17th Century Bob&#8217;s Big Boy, with an infinite number of wandering Dons and their flawless luvs supreme. It feels like most of the main threads have to come to some sort of resolution, leaving an appealingly open road for the second part of the book. Speaking of which&#8230;<br \/>\n<b>Next Wednesday: <\/b>&#8230;to Part II and beyond! &#8212; let&#8217;s aim for the end of our second Chapter II (page 473 Grossman), where I&#8217;m glad to report that the three of them appear to be having &#8220;a most amusing conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my stars and garters &#8212; Week 9!, wherein both marchers errant and their faithful squires cavort, with strange and pleasing results. As Mr. Magoo pointed in last week&#8217;s comments, we&#8217;ve hit a heckuva milestone by flipping past page 400 (Grossman). And you know what they say about Don Quixote: the last 540 pages are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archiveddms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}