{"id":421,"date":"2002-04-19T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-19T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=421"},"modified":"2010-06-13T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T17:49:07","slug":"421","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Book report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099727315\/tomleslieca-20\">Moab Is My Washpot<\/a>, by Stephen Fry.  An autobiography of his first 30 years, Moab is at times annoyingly self-indulgent and otherwise brilliant.  In case the reader had any doubts, Fry convincingly demonstrates the qualities of a well-educated man of words, with a heavy dose of self-destruction and pathos, but enough self-awareness to take the piss out of himself and his flaws.  Interesting, amusing, thought-provoking and hard to put down.  4 out of 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moab Is My Washpot, by Stephen Fry. An autobiography of his first 30 years, Moab is at times annoyingly self-indulgent and otherwise brilliant. In case the reader had any doubts, Fry convincingly demonstrates the qualities of a well-educated man of words, with a heavy dose of self-destruction and pathos, but enough self-awareness to take the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}