{"id":2149,"date":"2018-06-25T22:39:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T10:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2018-06-25T22:40:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T10:40:56","slug":"demian-hermann-hesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2018\/06\/25\/demian-hermann-hesse\/","title":{"rendered":"Demian &#8212; Hermann Hesse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/demian-1-e1527292123927-647x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"1013\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2115\" data-wp-pid=\"2115\" nopin=\"nopin\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/demian-1-e1527292123927-647x1024.jpg 647w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/demian-1-e1527292123927-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/demian-1-e1527292123927-768x1215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/demian-1-e1527292123927-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/demian-1-e1527292123927-800x1266.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/demian-1-e1527292123927-1137x1800.jpg 1137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Demian is very mysterious and alluring. This book is about him and his influence on the narrator &#8212; they first meet when they are both schoolboys. Demian then turns up repeatedly as the years go by, gradually taking the narrator into a circle of freethinking misfits. It&#8217;s less fanciful than the other Hesse novels I have read, but still packs a bit of a punch.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demian is very mysterious and alluring. This book is about him and his influence on the narrator &#8212; they first meet when they are both schoolboys. Demian then turns up repeatedly as the years go by, gradually taking the narrator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2018\/06\/25\/demian-hermann-hesse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,134,63],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-hermann-hesse","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","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=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}