{"id":56,"date":"2007-01-05T12:22:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T16:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2007-01-05T12:29:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T16:29:35","slug":"kafka-on-the-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Kafka on the Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/features\/murakami\/site.php?id=\">Haruki Murakami<\/a>&#8216;s beautiful novel <em>Kafka on the Shore<\/em> a couple of days ago and still haven&#8217;t recovered from the experience.  It was the first Murakami I&#8217;ve read\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI don&#8217;t know how he escaped my notice before\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut I intend to read more.  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever so willingly or completely surrended my disbelief to a novel before.  I was quite thoroughly seduced\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut not abandoned\u00e2\u20ac\u201d for the book has stayed with me.  One of the qualities I enjoy and admire is his refusal to let the fiction collapse into Meaning, the English Class obsession. He says in an interview &#8220;When you read a good story, you just keep reading. When I write a good story, I just keep writing.&#8221;  I could feel that joyous sense as I read\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat we were both having a good time.  I read it because it was awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy.org\/awards\/\">World Fantasy Award<\/a> for 2005\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich it richly deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading Haruki Murakami&#8216;s beautiful novel Kafka on the Shore a couple of days ago and still haven&#8217;t recovered from the experience. It was the first Murakami I&#8217;ve read\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI don&#8217;t know how he escaped my notice before\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut I intend &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=56\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}