{"id":3743,"date":"2008-03-17T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T20:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2008-03-17T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T20:54:58","slug":"vs_naipaul_valetudinarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/vs_naipaul_valetudinarian\/","title":{"rendered":"vs naipaul, valetudinarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/departments\/generalfiction\/story\/0,,2265761,00.html\">VS Naipaul: The Long Arrival<\/a>, by Robert McCrum. Good long two part piece on the man widely considered to be both the greatest writer in the English language and a total jerk; it makes me feel even guiltier than usual for not having gotten around to reading any of his work yet. Really though I am posting this mainly to say that you kind of really have to love a country in which a writer can just use the word <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/wordoftheday\/archive\/2001\/02\/05.html\">&#8220;valetudinarian&#8221;<\/a> in a newspaper and not have their editor change it or make them explain it, just letting it sit in context. Vive la reine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VS Naipaul: The Long Arrival, by Robert McCrum. Good long two part piece on the man widely considered to be both the greatest writer in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-cheesedip","category-movable-type","category-quickbites","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}