{"id":1674,"date":"2016-05-03T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T23:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2016-05-03T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T23:43:49","slug":"thorndon-kirsty-gunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2016\/05\/03\/thorndon-kirsty-gunn\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorndon &#8212; Kirsty Gunn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160503_091745-e1462232524826.jpg\" alt=\"Thorndon\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1525\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1677\" data-wp-pid=\"1677\" \/>A meditation on belonging, place, family and more. Kirsty Gunn did what Katherine Mansfield never did: she returned from the UK to live for a time in her home town of Wellington, New Zealand. She stayed in a cottage in Thorndon, the suburb where Mansfield grew up, on a scholarship to work on her &#8220;Katherine Mansfield project&#8221;. This book is the result.<\/p>\n<p>The style of <cite>Thorndon<\/cite> feels more like Mansfield than Gunn, in my limited experience of both writers. It feels as if Gunn, a Mansfield scholar, was deeply affected by being steeped in Mansfield&#8217;s formative environment. Even more so given that it was also Gunn&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The actual book itself is lovely too, like all the BWB Texts. Compact, elegant, and pocket-sized.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meditation on belonging, place, family and more. Kirsty Gunn did what Katherine Mansfield never did: she returned from the UK to live for a time in her home town of Wellington, New Zealand. She stayed in a cottage in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2016\/05\/03\/thorndon-kirsty-gunn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,103,94,97,19],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-bwb-texts","tag-katherine-mansfield","tag-kirsty-gunn","tag-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}