{"id":158,"date":"2002-12-08T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-08T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2002\/12\/the_quiet_ameri\/"},"modified":"2002-12-08T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-08T16:51:00","slug":"the_quiet_ameri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/the_quiet_ameri\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quiet American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the Graham Greene <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099286076\">novel<\/a> the other day, and immediately promised myself that I&#8217;d read much more Greene in 2003.<br \/>\nObviously it&#8217;s an excellent work, and I was pleased to see just how closely the recent film adhered to the novel. Certainly there were contractions and fewer characters but overall it was a very accurate portrayal.<br \/>\nNow about those Norman Sherry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099287722\">biographies<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the Graham Greene novel the other day, and immediately promised myself that I&#8217;d read much more Greene in 2003. Obviously it&#8217;s an excellent work, and I was pleased to see just how closely the recent film adhered to the novel. Certainly there were contractions and fewer characters but overall it was a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}