{"id":163,"date":"2002-12-15T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-15T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2002\/12\/our_man_in_hava\/"},"modified":"2002-12-15T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-15T19:32:00","slug":"our_man_in_hava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/our_man_in_hava\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Man In Havana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I promised <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000092.html\">recently<\/a> that I was going to read more Graham Greene, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099286084\">this<\/a> was the obvious next title. Obvious, because I managed to not get around to reading it before visiting Cuba last year.<br \/>\nReading it, I found it very familiar but from long enough ago, that I&#8217;d forgotten the ending. Later, on returning from France where I read it, I found that the familiarity was not from the <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0054152\">film<\/a>, but because I read it a while ago, and managed to find a second copy &#8211; not the first time this has happened.<br \/>\nI love the way Greene takes a the desperately dull Wormold, and develops him. The latter part of the book is especially funny, and the spy background seems scarily accurate.  Now what Greene should I read next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promised recently that I was going to read more Graham Greene, so this was the obvious next title. Obvious, because I managed to not get around to reading it before visiting Cuba last year. Reading it, I found it very familiar but from long enough ago, that I&#8217;d forgotten the ending. Later, on returning [&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\/163"}],"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=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}