{"id":427,"date":"2003-09-14T16:04:11","date_gmt":"2003-09-14T16:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/09\/the_summer_that\/"},"modified":"2003-09-14T16:04:11","modified_gmt":"2003-09-14T16:04:11","slug":"the_summer_that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/the_summer_that\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summer That Never Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0330489356\">most recent<\/a> Alan Banks novel in Asda last week at a bargain price, and devoured it in a couple of days.<br \/>\nI do like these Banks books, even thought they&#8217;re not especially demanding. Of course there&#8217;s been something of a backstory build-up towards this for a while (how far back I won&#8217;t know until I&#8217;ve read the earlier novels), with Banks&#8217; childhood friend&#8217;s death playing on his mind.<br \/>\nThe next book isn&#8217;t out in hardback until January, so there&#8217;s probably a  year to go before I get to read it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up the most recent Alan Banks novel in Asda last week at a bargain price, and devoured it in a couple of days. I do like these Banks books, even thought they&#8217;re not especially demanding. Of course there&#8217;s been something of a backstory build-up towards this for a while (how far back I [&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-427","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\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}