{"id":23360,"date":"2020-01-13T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T18:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23360"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:47:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:47:52","slug":"23360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/13\/23360\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1973,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/books\\\/review\\\/roald-dahl-murder-hitchhiker.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20221127100947\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/20\\\/books\\\/review\\\/roald-dahl-murder-hitchhiker.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 21:00:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 21:00:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/20\/books\/review\/roald-dahl-murder-hitchhiker.html\">In Roald Dahl\u2019s Car<\/a>: &#8220;&#8216;[My stories] can be pretty horrible. They don\u2019t always end well; there\u2019s often a twist in the tail. Actually, I think I\u2019m writing funny stories, because they can be very comical. There\u2019s such a narrow line between the macabre and laughter.&#8217; I could sense him smiling as he said it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Roald Dahl\u2019s Car: &#8220;&#8216;[My stories] can be pretty horrible. They don\u2019t always end well; there\u2019s often a twist in the tail. Actually, I think I\u2019m writing funny stories, because they can be very comical. There\u2019s such a narrow line between the macabre and laughter.&#8217; I could sense him smiling as he said it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2028],"tags":[1149],"class_list":["post-23360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-books","category-links","tag-roald-dahl","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}