{"id":19779,"date":"2016-08-31T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=19779"},"modified":"2016-08-21T09:06:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T13:06:05","slug":"despising-other-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/31\/despising-other-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Despising Other Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Like most introverts, he was very dependent upon small, minute-to-minute comforts, no matter whence they came. Fern&#8217;s gaze upon life was very decisively inwards. He read much. He reflected much. One of his purest pleasures was an entire day in bed; all by himself, in excellent health. He lived in a quite pleasant surburban flat, with a view over a park. Unfortunately, the park, for the most part, was more beautiful when Fern was not there; because when he was there, it tended to fill with raucous loiterers and tiny piercing radios. [&#8230;] For years, then, Fern teetered along the tightrope between content and discontent; between mild self-congratulation and black frustration; between the gritty disillusionments of human intimacy and travel (for Fern the two became more and more inseparable), and the truth and power of his dream. It might be a twilight tightrope, but twilight was not an hour which Fern despised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Robert Aickman, &#8220;Never Visit Venice&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most introverts, he was very dependent upon small, minute-to-minute comforts, no matter whence they came. Fern&#8217;s gaze upon life was very decisively inwards. He read much. He reflected much. One of his purest pleasures was an entire day in bed; all by himself, in excellent health. He lived in a quite pleasant surburban flat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2854,1816,44,2856,2855],"class_list":["post-19779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-aickman","tag-death","tag-short-stories","tag-skulls","tag-venice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->