{"id":1037,"date":"2004-06-02T11:38:27","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T15:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2010-07-09T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T14:23:13","slug":"i-am-the-only-person-who-has-read-hopeful-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"The Loneliness of Being a Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have books that you love which nobody else appears to have read?<\/p>\n<p>As I said in his comments over there:  the only other people I know who have read &#8220;Hopeful Monsters&#8221; by Nicholas Mosley, one of my favorite books of all time &#8211; are people who were forced to read it by me.  They may have come to adore it &#8211; my friend Ted comes to mind &#8211; but I was the one who got there first.<\/p>\n<p>Any books you LOVE &#8211; that nobody else seems to love or even have heard of?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have books that you love which nobody else appears to have read? As I said in his comments over there: the only other people I know who have read &#8220;Hopeful Monsters&#8221; by Nicholas Mosley, one of my favorite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1037\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[712],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15971,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/15971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}