{"id":8216,"date":"2008-07-11T13:25:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T17:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8216"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:30:55","slug":"cashel-on-frankenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8216","title":{"rendered":"Cashel on Frankenstein<\/i>:"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I read Frankenstein<\/i> and every other WORD was ‘melancholy’. The melancholy sky, the melancholy smile … EVERYTHING was ‘melancholy’! And it was 200 pages before he built the monster!”<\/p>\n

Mary, from across two centuries, Cashel would like you to tone down the “melancholy”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I read Frankenstein and every other WORD was ‘melancholy’. The melancholy sky, the melancholy smile … EVERYTHING was ‘melancholy’! And it was 200 pages before he built the monster!” Mary, from across two centuries, Cashel would like you to tone … Continue reading →<\/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":[1101,840,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216"}],"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=8216"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200542,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions\/200542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}