{"id":348,"date":"2005-04-19T08:12:25","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T08:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=348"},"modified":"2005-04-19T08:12:25","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T08:12:25","slug":"the-evening-redness-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2005\/04\/19\/the-evening-redness-in-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"the evening redness in the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the future, when the world is better organised, when children come of age, we will let ones who&#8217;ve been good read Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cormacmccarthy.com\/works\/bloodmeridian.htm\">Blood Meridian<\/a>, we&#8217;ll tell them that, because they&#8217;ve been good, they get to meet the judge. When the ones who have been bad come of age, we&#8217;ll make them read Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cormacmccarthy.com\/works\/bloodmeridian.htm\">Blood Meridian<\/a>, we&#8217;ll tell them that, because they&#8217;ve been bad, they get to meet the judge. <i>His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says he&#8217;ll never die<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This book is simply fantastic, in a blood and dust, Moby Dick meets McCabe And Mrs Miller, gore and unrectified night, kind of way. <i>So man loves games? Then let him play for stakes<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the future, when the world is better organised, when children come of age, we will let ones who&#8217;ve been good read Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s Blood Meridian, we&#8217;ll tell them that, because they&#8217;ve been good, they get to meet the judge. When the ones who have been bad come of age, we&#8217;ll make them read Cormac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-5C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}