{"id":94,"date":"2002-07-22T11:41:36","date_gmt":"2002-07-22T11:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2002\/07\/999_by_frederic\/"},"modified":"2002-07-22T11:41:36","modified_gmt":"2002-07-22T11:41:36","slug":"999_by_frederic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/999_by_frederic\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufffd9.99 by Frederic Beigbeder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.  This book is pretty good.  Translated from the French and reset in London (not totally convincingly since the protagonist is called Octave).  Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m a total cynic, particularly where advertising is concerned &#8211; despite working in the industry &#8211; but I empaphised with the feelings expressed here a lot.<br \/>\nThe book is about a very senior agency creative who&#8217;s trying to get himself sacked.  This plan is not quite working.  At the same time he&#8217;s left his pregnant girlfriend, and taken up with a prostitute.<br \/>\nAnyway needless to say that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0330490079\">\ufffd9.99 <\/a>costs \ufffd9.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. This book is pretty good. Translated from the French and reset in London (not totally convincingly since the protagonist is called Octave). Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m a total cynic, particularly where advertising is concerned &#8211; despite working in the industry &#8211; but I empaphised with the feelings expressed here a lot. The book is [&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\/94"}],"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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}