{"id":240,"date":"2008-09-29T00:12:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T05:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=240"},"modified":"2008-09-28T22:43:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T03:43:19","slug":"today-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Today in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joaquim_Maria_Machado_de_Assis\">Machado de Assis<\/a>. A few months ago I read his second and third novels (the first has not been translated into English), <em>The Hand and the Glove<\/em> and <em>Helena<\/em>, and yesterday started <em>Dom Casmurro<\/em>: more on them when I gather my thoughts. As for his short stories, I have a perverse fondness for the gruesome and Swiftian &#8216;Alexandrian Tale&#8217;, which features crooked philosophers at the Museum of Alexandria and human vivisection performed by Herophilus himself. A characteristic sentence: &#8220;Be patient, be patient. One does not acquire a vice in the same way one sews a pair of sandals.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Machado de Assis. A few months ago I read his second and third novels (the first has not been translated into English), The Hand and the Glove and Helena, and yesterday &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=240\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}