{"id":153943,"date":"2019-12-19T08:50:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T13:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=153943"},"modified":"2021-07-27T19:18:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T23:18:58","slug":"13-questions-about-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=153943","title":{"rendered":"13 Questions About Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony McIntyre is a former IRA volunteer who spent 18 years in prison, participating in the blanket protest and other protests which culminated in the hunger strikes of the 1980s. He is a journalist and activist, and a long-standing internet friend of mine, even though I only met him once when he and his wife Carrie (who had been reading and participating on my site for years) opened their home to Allison and I when we visited Belfast. We had such an extraordinary visit! Anthony and Carrie both do very important and sometimes dangerous work in northern Irish politics, and I was happy to participate in an ongoing series on their site The Pensive Quill: Booker&#8217;s Dozen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepensivequill.com\/2019\/12\/bookers-dozen-sheila-omalley.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony asked 13 questions about books. I answered.<\/a> Let&#8217;s hear it for Elinor Lipman!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony McIntyre is a former IRA volunteer who spent 18 years in prison, participating in the blanket protest and other protests which culminated in the hunger strikes of the 1980s. He is a journalist and activist, and a long-standing internet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=153943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[589,600,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153943"}],"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=153943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153944,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153943\/revisions\/153944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}