{"id":2821,"date":"2014-07-03T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2014-07-03T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T13:34:07","slug":"o-tempora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"O Tempora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I walked the course of the Blueberry Cove Half Marathon (13.1 miles on our lovely peninsula) and spent yesterday recovering. A measure of my malaise is in the reading: I took up Dorothy Sayers&#8217; <b>Clouds of Witness<\/b> (vintage 1927) and was transported to a place and time where this sort of dialog was a possibility:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You&#8217;d better toddle back to bed,&#8221; said Lord Peter. &#8220;You&#8217;re gettin&#8217; all cold. <b>Why do girls wear such mimsy little pyjimjams in this damn cold climate?<\/b> There, don&#8217;t you worry. I&#8217;ll drop in on you later and we&#8217;ll have a jolly old pow-wow, what?&#8221; (pg 72)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Such Eternal Verities are Therapeutic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I walked the course of the Blueberry Cove Half Marathon (13.1 miles on our lovely peninsula) and spent yesterday recovering. A measure of my malaise is in the reading: I took up Dorothy Sayers&#8217; Clouds of Witness (vintage 1927) and was transported to a place and time where this sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-tempora","category-zeitgeist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}