{"id":467,"date":"2003-10-28T20:23:37","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T20:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/10\/middlesex\/"},"modified":"2003-10-28T20:23:37","modified_gmt":"2003-10-28T20:23:37","slug":"middlesex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/middlesex\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0747561621\">this<\/a> coming out in hardback, and wasn&#8217;t too sure about it at the time. I haven&#8217;t read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0747560595\">The Virgin Suicides<\/a>, and I hadn&#8217;t seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0159097\/\">film<\/a> either (still haven&#8217;t).<br \/>\nBut I heard good things about it, and when I was down in Sheringham, I had plenty of time to get some reading in, even if I still brought too many books with me. What a cracking read it is. I&#8217;ve never really properly considered hermaphrodites before, even if there do seem to be quite a lot of them around.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a fascinating story beginning in Greece of the twenties, and leading up to more recent times, but thoroughly engaging the reader with the history of recent American life in Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0747561621<\/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-467","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\/467","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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}