{"id":249,"date":"2009-11-23T19:25:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T07:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=249"},"modified":"2012-09-11T23:11:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T11:11:19","slug":"womans-world-graham-rawle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2009\/11\/23\/womans-world-graham-rawle\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s World &#8212; Graham Rawle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1582434638?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thunderguycom-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1582434638\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/womans-world.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Woman&#039;s World\" width=\"327\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/womans-world.jpeg 327w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/womans-world-196x300.jpeg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thunderguycom-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1582434638\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>This is a hilarious and intriguing book, painstakingly written by assembling thousands of fragments from several decades&#8217; worth of women&#8217;s magazines. The tone of the sentences is unmistakable.<\/p>\n<p>I love the way that some of the word combinations lead to odd turns of phrase and overextended metaphors that you wouldn&#8217;t see in any normal book, such as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My voice a light and airy souffl&eacute;, straight from the oven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roy nodded encouragingly, though his concentration had drifted out to sea in a small dinghy.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best part is that this method of construction isn&#8217;t arbitrary &#8212; in the end it becomes part of the plot itself. Very clever indeed.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a hilarious and intriguing book, painstakingly written by assembling thousands of fragments from several decades&#8217; worth of women&#8217;s magazines. The tone of the sentences is unmistakable. I love the way that some of the word combinations lead to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2009\/11\/23\/womans-world-graham-rawle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,4],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-art","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}