{"id":102,"date":"2006-01-05T18:20:31","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T22:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2006-01-05T18:20:31","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T22:20:31","slug":"to-bed-with-margaret-atwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"To bed with Margaret Atwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

and yet another cold. Bodily Harm,<\/em> an early novel of hers, is larger and more sprawling than the dystopian stories I have been reading recently ( Oryx and Crake, The Handmaid’s Tale<\/em> ). But it’s well worth the effort — a wonderful story about how being a middle-class woman with breast cancer is not actually the worse fate in the world.<\/p>\n\n

I couldn’t help thinking of the Dina Rabinovitch column<\/a> about breast cancer, which I skimmed at breakfast, which ends where her goldfish are helping her cope with the disappointment after publishers tell her that the market for “me and my cancer” books is a little saturated right now.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

and yet another cold. Bodily Harm, an early novel of hers, is larger and more sprawling than the dystopian stories I have been reading recently ( Oryx and Crake, The Handmaid’s Tale ). But it’s well worth the effort — … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}