{"id":716,"date":"2004-06-11T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/06\/around_the_worl\/"},"modified":"2004-06-11T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T00:00:18","slug":"around_the_worl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/around_the_worl\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Eighty Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never previously read any Jules Verne and with a &#8220;suspicious&#8221; new big-budget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0327437\/\">film version<\/a> upcoming, I thought I&#8217;d read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/014062032X\">the original<\/a>.<br \/>\nI suppose the version of the story I&#8217;m most familiar with is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0135114\/\">Willy Fog<\/a> cartoon version &#8211; famously originating in Spain, and with the dubbed characters speaking rapidfire English over a massive 26 episodes. So it was quite interesting to read the original as the suave, yet aloof, Phileas Fogg. The books a real page-turner, and the story still holds up well with the oddly named Fix tracking Fogg around the world. Note to self &#8211; read more Jules Verne.<br \/>\nUPDATE: Hmm. The first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/ent\/movies\/review\/2004\/06\/16\/around_the_world\/index.html\">review<\/a> I&#8217;ve seen of the film is pretty poor to say the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>014062032X<\/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-716","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\/716","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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}