{"id":351,"date":"2003-07-16T22:43:27","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T22:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/07\/the_life_of_pi\/"},"modified":"2003-07-16T22:43:27","modified_gmt":"2003-07-16T22:43:27","slug":"the_life_of_pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/the_life_of_pi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life of Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/184195392X\">This<\/a> was the Booker winner earlier this year, and I wasn&#8217;t totally sure about it. It had received good reviews, but since it&#8217;s the story of an Indian boy (not Greek as maybe the title suggests) travelling across the ocean in the company of various animals including a Bengal tiger, I took the book to be some kind of allegory &#8211; perhaps a fable.<br \/>\nWell I can report back that this isn&#8217;t the case. I found the start of the book a little slow and all over the place, but the heart of the book was excellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the Booker winner earlier this year, and I wasn&#8217;t totally sure about it. It had received good reviews, but since it&#8217;s the story of an Indian boy (not Greek as maybe the title suggests) travelling across the ocean in the company of various animals including a Bengal tiger, I took the book to [&hellip;]<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}