{"id":516,"date":"2008-04-29T09:40:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T09:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2008-04-29T09:40:51","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T09:40:51","slug":"damn-you-nick-hornby-damn-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Damn you Nick Hornby, damn you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just finished listening to the iTunes feature &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewRoom?fcId=278423814&amp;id=149\" title=\"iTunes meet Nick Hornby\" target=\"_blank\">Meet the Author<\/a>&#8216; where the focus is the author Nick Hornby.<\/p>\n<p>Damn him.<\/p>\n<p>Does he have n0 sense of moral decency?<\/p>\n<p>No sense of, of, of&#8230; <em>responsibility<\/em> towards his fellow man?<\/p>\n<p>Well actually.<\/p>\n<p>Yes he does.<\/p>\n<p>He has all of these things in abundance.<\/p>\n<p>He comes across as a sensible, sensitive, caring, compassionate guy with his feet firmly rooted in the &#8216;normal&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the focus of the talk is on his new novel Slam &#8211; he reads a beguiling passage which hooked me straight away.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also significant chat about Fever Pitch and the brilliant High Fidelity.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why the &#8216;damn you Nick Hornby&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Because now I want to read Slam.<\/p>\n<p>And then buy yet another copy of High Fidelity, lock myself away for eight or nine hours and selfishly wallow in his work and my own memories, as they are triggered by his words.<\/p>\n<p>Damn you Nick Hornby.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just finished listening to the iTunes feature &#8216;Meet the Author&#8216; where the focus is the author Nick Hornby. Damn him. Does he have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}