{"id":809,"date":"2023-11-18T15:56:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T23:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:09:48","slug":"reading-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/reading-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023<\/h1>\n

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This was the year of Downsize Abbey.\u00a0\u00a0 We pack up and leave our old home..\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The library of 4,000 books goes to a bookshop in Covina.\u00a0 We move to a temporary rental round the corner.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sadly, though I have been reading (and buying) of course, I seem to have fallen severely behind in my writing about reading, so with the news that it is now October \u2013 let me try and play Catch Up if I can.<\/em><\/p>\n

We spent three months in Europe this summer so I\u2019m going to start there.\u00a0 I remember I had got rather tired of best-selling mysteries and had fallen back on my usual gambit of reaching for the classics.\u00a0 This is a good stand by, even if they are new translations like the splendid Iliad which I am currently reading.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Iliad\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Homer<\/h2>\n

This is the first time I have read it through as a story.\u00a0\u00a0 It is spectacularly translated, and a gripping read. The characters come to life.\u00a0 Even the Gods \u2013 often so annoying \u2013 have their place in the tale.\u00a0 It is started really by Eris \u2013 God of Chaos \u2013 chucking the Golden Apple amongst three beautiful Goddesses.\u00a0 For the Most Beautiful<\/em> it says. \u00a0Like an Award Show for Gods.\u00a0 Three immediately claim it and Paris is appointed to decide who should be the winner.\u00a0 Bribed by Hera with the promised reward of the most beautiful woman in the world if he should choose her, he does and is rewarded with Helen of Troy.\u00a0 Never mind she is someone else\u2019s wife.\u00a0 Possibly he should win the Poisoned Penis award for he abducts her back to Troy from her husband Menelaus, brother of the Greek King Agamemnon, starting the ten year Trojan War and costing hundreds of lives, when the Greeks raise a huge fleet and head off in pursuit, determined to rescue Helen.\u00a0 The Iliad itself opens after the Greeks have spent nine years encamped by their boats outside the walls of Troy and are tired of this endless war.\u00a0 Many wish to go back to their wives and children in Greece.\u00a0\u00a0 Many more are dead.\u00a0 This is the point where the action of the poem begins.\u00a0 I now believe Eris is the mother of all award shows.\u00a0 Chuck \u2018em a prize and make them fight for it and send the other buggers home empty handed.\u00a0 That\u2019ll teach \u2018em.<\/p>\n

A pair of true stories I read recently seemed to be sharing a similar theme, asking the question: when a couple is engaged sexually just how much is the woman not responsible for her actions in breaking the law, and how much is she \u201ccontrolled.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 I mean these:<\/em><\/p>\n

Going Infinite\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michael Lewis<\/h2>\n

In this, straight from the headlines, story Michael Lewis tells us the odd story of Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s weird tale of becoming a Crypto Billionaire and the extraordinary collapse of his company.\u00a0 Now he is on trial and the major testimony is coming from his former girl-friend Caroline Ellison.\u00a0 Trial now over and he was found quite guilty.<\/p>\n

Immediately afterwards I read<\/em><\/p>\n

The Art Thief\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michael Pinkel<\/h2>\n

A not dissimilar tale of a young Alsatian couple who stole major Renaissance art work from small museums in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, accumulating a huge treasure trove which they kept in an apartment they shared at his mother\u2019s.\u00a0 The similarity is in the influence the man had over the woman.\u00a0 Here Anne Catherine seems very much part of the duo, until the trial where she testifies against him.\u00a0 Breitweiser steals for the pure joy of owning art.\u00a0 He is a hoarder.\u00a0 He has no intention of selling.<\/p>\n

The Shards\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Brett Easton Ellis<\/h2>\n

I began but he is too much for me. I didn\u2019t get far. I\u2019m not a horror fan.\u00a0 I understand he can write.<\/p>\n

The Romantic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 William Boyd<\/h2>\n

A picaresque novel, spanning several lives.\u00a0 Very romantic in the early days when he is hanging out with Byron and witnessing the death of Shelley, and where he meets the love of his life, whom he will meet again towards the end.\u00a0 When he moves to North America I found the tale less gripping band put it down for a bit but because I am a big fan I restarted it and enjoyed the eventual romantic reunion.<\/p>\n

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Summer reading 2023<\/h1>\n

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I remember Nothing. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Norah Ephron<\/h2>\n

Fortunately she does and makes us laugh even as she lies dying.\u00a0 What a terrible loss she is. \u00a0So funny, so smart, such good company.<\/p>\n

A Passage to India<\/h2>\n

The first time I have read this since reading Damon Galgut\u2019s Arctic Ice<\/strong>.\u00a0 The underlying theme of homosexuality in this, one of Forster\u2019s best books, is illuminated by Galgut\u2019s own splendid novel, so that the two books seem to dance together and it is impossible to unrecognize the homo-erotic subtext of Forster\u2019s great work, which only gives it greater resonance and truth.<\/p>\n

The Metaphysical Ukulele.<\/h2>\n

A great title and quite interesting tales of the most unlikely instrument.<\/p>\n

The Counter? The Comforters?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Muriel Spark<\/h2>\n

A strange one.\u00a0 It has the feel of something written first as a film.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe it was.\u00a0 As it is it\u2019s the last of her many wonderful novels.<\/p>\n

I discover that The Finishing School<\/em> was the last of her novels.\u00a0 I need to find this book again in France.\u00a0 What can I mean?\u00a0 The Comforters<\/em> was her first novel, when she was recovering from amphetamine and discovered Catholicism and was aided in her career by Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, both Catholic drug abusers\u2026 if you count alcohol.<\/p>\n

See Is God a Mushroom? <\/em>\u00a0A book I just made up.\u00a0 Incidentally when you fast for forty days and forty nights in the desert eating only manna you are quite possibly off your bonce.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Dalloway\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Virginia Woolf<\/h2>\n

No. \u00a0I\u2019m still afraid of her.<\/p>\n

Seize The Day \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saul Bellow<\/h2>\n

The haunted wastrel son, the unforgiving father.\u00a0 This short novella goes to the heart of money and it\u2019s lack and lack of parental heart in New York.<\/p>\n

The Duchess of Malfi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Webster<\/h2>\n

Visiting Amalfi this summer I was minded to re-read this play, which actually isn\u2019t so much about the Duchess as the intrigues at Court between her brother and her, leading to murder and mayhem.<\/p>\n

A Sentimental Education\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gustave Flaubert<\/h2>\n

Opened terrifically, like a great Dickens, but trickled away.\u00a0 Maybe he spent too long on it.\u00a0 It ran out of steam and I certainly did long before the conclusion.<\/p>\n

Monsieur Monde Vanishes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Georges Simenon<\/h2>\n

The Interest\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michael Taylor<\/h2>\n

Still so shocking, this history of Slavery in the Sugar Trade, and how almost all of the 18th<\/sup> Century profited and benefited from it.\u00a0\u00a0 I find it hard to read more than a few chapters at a time.\u00a0\u00a0 Sugar, slavery and the Success of Business in England.\u00a0 Even in Mansfield Park. Mr. ? goes off to attend to his estates in Jamaica.\u00a0 And guess what they are growing?\u00a0 The triangular trade, protected by the British Navy, ensured the success and wealth of British society.\u00a0 Based round Liverpool and Bristol (Bath!) the West Country profited but so did the woollen trade and shipping.<\/p>\n

The Great Gatsby\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 F. Scott Fitzgerald.<\/h2>\n

I always learn something new.\u00a0 The ending always takes me by surprise.<\/p>\n

Dark Ride\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lou Berney<\/h2>\n

A man sees two kids who have been tortured by cigarettes.\u00a0 He sets out to discover them and their mother to see if he can get anyone to help him rescue them\u2026. A charming thriller.<\/p>\n

The Fraud\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Zadie Smith<\/h2>\n

The book of the year for me.\u00a0 She is an outstanding novelist.\u00a0 Here she writes a brilliant story set in 1873 in Victorian London, which includes a scene with Dickens, The Tichbourne Trial, and the problems of being housekeeper to a less than brilliant novelist.\u00a0 I read engrossed and happy and was sad when it stopped.<\/p>\n

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Fall Reading 2023<\/h1>\n

 <\/p>\n

When I got back from France I fell in love again with Eve Babitz: First her collection of pieces<\/em><\/p>\n

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A.\u00a0\u00a0 Eve Babitz.<\/h2>\n

which seemed to mention so many of my friends, Derek Taylor, Steve Martin and David Giler.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated \u201cits own kind of moral laws,\u201d spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and \u201970s. One man proved elusive, however, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book.\u00a0Slow Days, Fast Company<\/em>\u00a0is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California that far exceeds its mash-note premise. In ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind\u2013swept sketches, Babitz re-creates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success, socialites on three-day drug binges holed up in the Chateau Marmont, soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow\u2019s script will kill them off, Italian femmes fatales even more fatal than Babitz. And she even leaves LA now and then, spending an afternoon at the house of flawless Orange County suburbanites, a day among the grape pickers of the Central Valley, a weekend in Palm Springs where her dreams of romance fizzle and her only solace is Virginia Woolf. In the end it doesn\u2019t matter if Babitz ever gets the guy\u2014she seduces us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And then I read everything I could get my hands on.\u00a0 Including:<\/em><\/p>\n

L. A. Woman.\u00a0 Eve Babitz<\/h2>\n

A novel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Her stories are essential about herself and her friends anyway.<\/p>\n

Black Swans\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eve Babitz<\/h2>\n

Stories.<\/p>\n

After which I read:<\/em><\/p>\n

Hollywood\u2019s Eve, Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. by Lil Anolik<\/h2>\n

which is a decent biography although she seems to suffer slightly from Venus Envy, as who wouldn\u2019t when your best friend walks away with the best life, the best drugs, the best boyfriends, and was also the better writer.<\/p>\n

But I also discovered The Sean Duffy Series by Adrian McKinty, to whose work I had been introduced by the extraordinary Don Winslow.\u00a0\u00a0 But I loved this series and read:<\/p>\n

The Detective Up Late<\/h2>\n

The Cold Cold Ground<\/h2>\n

In the Morning I\u2019ll be Gone<\/h2>\n

I Hear The Sirens in the Street<\/h2>\n

All of which are set in the civil war torn streets of Belfast.\u00a0 A detective tries to solve \u201ccrime\u201d amidst constant civil violence, death threats, turmoil and an armed insurrection. It\u2019s not dissimilar to the trope<\/p>\n

used so brilliantly by Philip Kerr in his unforgettable series about Bernie Gunther, where an oddball detective solves crime in Berlin first during the Weimar Republic and then under Hitler and the Nazi regime.<\/p>\n

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Now we are in November.<\/strong><\/h1>\n

 <\/p>\n

Something Wonderful\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Todd S. Purdum<\/h2>\n

Rodgers and Hammerstein\u2019s Broadway Revolution.\u00a0 A wonderful book, made even more joyful for me by the re- opening of Spamalot at The St. James Theater, where they opened so many of their wonderful shows\u2026and where I was at the First Night of Mel Brooke\u2019s The Producers, where he mercifully brought back Musical Comedy from its hiding place deep beneath the Paris sewers.\u00a0 Musical comedy has been the most enjoyable theatrical form since Offenbach and then Gilbert and Sullivan brought it to London and then on to Broadway.<\/p>\n

Flop Musicals of the Twenty-First Century \u00a0\u00a0 Stephen Purdy<\/h2>\n

Fortunately we\u2019re not in this book!\u00a0\u00a0 A fun romp through other people\u2019s misfortunes.\u00a0 It is a fact that only 17 per cent of Broadway musicals make their money back.\u00a0\u00a0 But this is a tale of some musicals that didn\u2019t even make it to the second night. So much ambition.\u00a0 So much skill.\u00a0 So\u00a0 much hope.\u00a0 So much disappointment. Failure is not spared even the finest of Creative teams.\u00a0 And then there are the rock and rollers, and the repeat failures.\u00a0 Some people keep on trying. Perhaps the most fascinating tale is the three year attempt to get Spiderman to fly.\u00a0\u00a0 Was it the single handed determination of Julie Tamor who led them into trouble?\u00a0 Was it the mistake to put this on Broadway instead of in Vegas, where it belonged.\u00a0 More of a ride than a musical, it would still be running there.\u00a0\u00a0 But alas trying to invent new technology is no way to solve the problems of the plot. Fascinating read.<\/p>\n

See Postcards from The Edge <\/em>another book I just made up.<\/p>\n

On the flight home from Broadway Baby I re-read<\/em><\/p>\n

The Left Handed Twin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thomas Perry.<\/h2>\n

Which I re-read with just as much enjoyment as the first time.<\/p>\n

Paul Auster\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Baumgartner<\/h2>\n

Day. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Novel \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michael Cunningham<\/h2>\n

I tried hard \u2013 indeed I started over again \u2013 but he really isn\u2019t my cup of tea.\u00a0\u00a0 I find it hard to concentrate on his writing\u2026<\/p>\n

The Last Tycoon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 F. Scott Fitzgerald\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The last unfinished novel.\u00a0\u00a0 Fascinating reading.\u00a0 The Narrator is female and Celia is the daughter of a Top Studio Executive so her insight into the boy genius boy of Hollywood should be more accurate than it appears.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to tell whether he could have pulled this narration off, once he was sure of what he was writing and what was to happen.\u00a0 Surely it would be the early death of Monroe Starr from overwork.\u00a0 I am very fond of Fitzgerald\u2019s bittersweet\u00a0 Pat Hobby Stories <\/em>and it\u2019s possible this would have been the best book, but at the moment it seems a rather sentimental story about someone Scott clearly admires.<\/p>\n

The Course of Love\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alain de Botton<\/h2>\n

Well I know precisely when I was reading this because a ticket from The Shed\u2019s Griffin Theatre fell out, dated Friday December 29th<\/sup> 2023 when I was attending the wonderful production of Sondheim\u2019s last work, Here We Are<\/strong> with a book by another genius David Ives, based on two movies by Bunuel The Exterminating Angel <\/em>and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie <\/em>Bunuel\u2019s 1972 film that was so popular with Python, back when we had our own screening room. I tried hard to get backstage to see David Hyde Pierce who was magnificent in it.\u00a0 Only alas to discover we could not actually find backstage in the warren of interesting architecture that is that splendid place. So Alan Zweibel and our Spices fled to dinner.<\/p>\n

On Love \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alain de Botton<\/h2>\n

So this must have been the first one I read previously back in November when we were opening at The St. James.\u00a0 I remember reading it a very long time ago but this time it had a profound effect on me and I was considering even trying to make it a musical!\u00a0\u00a0 I loved the way he steps out of the narrative to explain what is going on.\u00a0 I think you could do that with a play.\u00a0 I guess the Chorus kinda did that in early Greek drama.\u00a0 It\u2019s both a novel and an advice book.\u00a0 But it could be a very funny device.\u00a0 If only I had the time\u2026<\/p>\n

The Greeks \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roderick Beaton<\/h2>\n

A Global History.\u00a0\u00a0 A very long book a very long time ago. It was taking me a long time to read but as I am pretty much totally ignorant of Ancient Greek History, with a few vague exceptions like the plays of Sophocles, I decided to go back and dip.\u00a0 So it\u2019s a dipping source not a main course.<\/p>\n

Pax\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tom Holland.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 War and Peace in Rome\u2019s Golden Age<\/h2>\n

Rome is always interesting.\u00a0 Did you know it was not built in a Day?\u00a0\u00a0 It just looks like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023   This was the year of Downsize Abbey.\u00a0\u00a0 We pack up and leave our old home..\u00a0\u00a0 The library of 4,000 books goes to a bookshop in Covina.\u00a0 We move to a temporary rental round the corner. Sadly, though I have been reading (and buying) of course, I seem to have fallen severely behind in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}