{"id":29991,"date":"2010-11-13T08:24:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T13:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=29991"},"modified":"2010-11-13T08:24:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T13:24:45","slug":"the-sexiest-painting-i-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=29991","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Sexiest Painting I Know.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=29992\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29992\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/noli-me_tangere_1561_XX_musee_du_louvre_paris.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"noli me_tangere_1561_XX_musee_du_louvre_paris\" width=\"300\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/noli-me_tangere_1561_XX_musee_du_louvre_paris.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/noli-me_tangere_1561_XX_musee_du_louvre_paris-80x100.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/noli-me_tangere_1561_XX_musee_du_louvre_paris-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>&#8220;An Allegory with Venus and Cupid&#8221;, Agnolo Bronzino<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So says John Banville who is, on occasion, the sexiest <i>writer<\/i> I know.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/features\/one-minute-with-john-banville-novelist-2125162.html\">Here is a great little interview with him<\/a>.  I liked this bit a lot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Which fictional character most resembles you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Phoebe Griffin in my Benjamin Black novels, particularly the latest, &#8216;Elegy for April&#8217;, in which she becomes really interesting. My agent Ed Victor says I am in love with her, but I think I am her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having read the first two Benjamin Black novels, I love to hear his identification with Phoebe, something I would not have guessed. I somehow assumed that he would identify most with Quirke, but that was me missing the more evocative clues.  I have not read <i>Elegy for April<\/i> yet, and I can&#8217;t wait.  Banville is marvelous.  I love how much fun he seems to be having, juggling his two writing personae, &#8220;John Banville&#8221; and &#8220;Benjamin Black&#8221;.  I read it all.<\/p>\n<p>All my John Banville content is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?tag=john-banville\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An Allegory with Venus and Cupid&#8221;, Agnolo Bronzino So says John Banville who is, on occasion, the sexiest writer I know. Here is a great little interview with him. I liked this bit a lot: Which fictional character most resembles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=29991\">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":[9],"tags":[35,215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29991"}],"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=29991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29995,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29991\/revisions\/29995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}