{"id":9392,"date":"2009-05-27T08:43:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T12:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9392"},"modified":"2010-07-03T05:33:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T09:33:28","slug":"the-melancholic-haze-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9392","title":{"rendered":"The melancholic haze of memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sunsetgun.typepad.com\/sunsetgun\/2009\/05\/in-real-life-memories-dont-follow-the-patterns-of-a-typical-movie-recollections-are-not-played-out-in-fully-developed.html\">A terrific and emotional review of <i>The Virgin Suicides<\/i><\/a> by the always-fantastic Kim Morgan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These girls are characters one writes books about, but one never truly knows. And the not knowing is part of the tragedy (does anyone really want to know them? Or do they want to keep them? Or stare at them? Or, after a night of passion, leave them waking up alone and cold in a football field?). And then these are girls, who committed, really, in the plain light of day, an ugly act that turned their young, lilting beauty and promise of a full life into rotting corpses. Death. The urn your stepsister opens up after a game of Scrabble. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A terrific and emotional review of The Virgin Suicides by the always-fantastic Kim Morgan. These girls are characters one writes books about, but one never truly knows. And the not knowing is part of the tragedy (does anyone really want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9392\">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":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392"}],"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=9392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15311,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392\/revisions\/15311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}