{"id":233,"date":"2003-02-18T17:17:06","date_gmt":"2003-02-18T17:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/02\/swings_and_roun\/"},"modified":"2003-02-18T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2003-02-18T17:17:06","slug":"swings_and_roun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/swings_and_roun\/","title":{"rendered":"Swings and Roundabouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s strange to read about Soho bookshops in Graham Greene’s The Human Factor<\/a>, and find yourself shopping in a similar enterprise the same day.
\nThere’s a place called The Soho Bookshop which has two branches as such – similar to the setup in the Greene novel. They both sell standard fare on the ground floor – albeit largely remaindered books and videos. But downstairs they’re your usual “adult” fare. I try not to venture down there…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s strange to read about Soho bookshops in Graham Greene’s The Human Factor, and find yourself shopping in a similar enterprise the same day. There’s a place called The Soho Bookshop which has two branches as such – similar to the setup in the Greene novel. They both sell standard fare on the ground floor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}