{"id":438,"date":"2012-09-15T21:48:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T09:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=438"},"modified":"2017-02-28T23:14:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T10:14:07","slug":"the-10pm-question-kate-de-goldi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2012\/09\/15\/the-10pm-question-kate-de-goldi\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10pm Question &#8212; Kate De Goldi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/the-10pm-question.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"932\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1804\" data-wp-pid=\"1804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/the-10pm-question.jpg 620w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/the-10pm-question-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/the-10pm-question-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>I don&#8217;t know how many books have been written about neurotic 12-year-olds, but I doubt many of them are as good as <em>The 10pm Question<\/em>. The central character, Frankie, is a portrait of a boy struggling with (he feels) the weight of the world on his shoulders. He&#8217;s so serious, yet still a kid and a very human character. Pretty much all the other characters are weird or colourful in their own way, but never too cartoonish (with the possible exception of the Aunties &#8212; but they are so likeable I don&#8217;t really mind).<\/p>\n<p>The book&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longacre.co.nz\/books\/10pmQuestion.html\">official site<\/a> has a little essay written by the author, describing the ideas that went into the book and how it was written. Don&#8217;t read it until you&#8217;ve read the book though.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it&#8217;s short, <em>The 10pm Question<\/em> is clever, funny, thoughtful and wise. I loved it.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how many books have been written about neurotic 12-year-olds, but I doubt many of them are as good as The 10pm Question. The central character, Frankie, is a portrait of a boy struggling with (he feels) the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2012\/09\/15\/the-10pm-question-kate-de-goldi\/\">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":[4,109,19,63],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-kate-de-goldi","tag-new-zealand","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","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=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}