{"id":64,"date":"2010-01-21T01:07:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T01:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=64"},"modified":"2010-01-21T01:07:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T01:07:30","slug":"john-banvilles-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"John Banville&#8217;s Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched another old episode of &#8216;The Book Show&#8217;. This one had an interview with Man Booker prize winning author, John Banville. He was asked about\u00c2\u00a0a literary character that intrigued him and he chose Cheeta from &#8216;Me Cheeta&#8217; &#8212; which is a book that I&#8217;ve dipped into but not fully read. He said it might be best interpeted as a gay love story as Cheeta is clearly in love with Johnny Weismuller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched another old episode of &#8216;The Book Show&#8217;. This one had an interview with Man Booker prize winning author, John Banville. He was asked about\u00c2\u00a0a literary character that intrigued him and he chose Cheeta from &#8216;Me Cheeta&#8217; &#8212; which is a book that I&#8217;ve dipped into but not fully read. He said it might &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=64\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Banville&#8217;s Character&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-me-cheeta"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}