{"id":121,"date":"2005-06-17T12:20:36","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T12:20:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-17T12:20:36","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T12:20:36","slug":"simon_of_space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/2005\/06\/17\/simon_of_space\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, back when I was in school<\/a>, I’d read a a couple<\/a> of Sue Townsend’s books. The unique thing was that those books are written like diaries or journal entries. While I don’t think that there’s anything inherently wrong with the first person perspective in a novel, it has to be done right, which is exactly not<\/b> the way that at least one author<\/a> I’ve read does it.<\/p>\n

But, Cheeseburger Brown<\/a> certainly does it right<\/a>. Not only in his fiction, but also in his own journal entries<\/a>, which come off like a story and suck you in (how voyeuristic of me), but also, and mainly in his new jourvel (how else would you combine novel<\/em> and journal<\/em>? oh, I guess you can call it blognovel, like CBB does), Simon of Space<\/a>. Now, here is a piece of writing, an unfolding story, a live journal, that I’m hopelessly addicted to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, back when I was in school, I’d read a a couple of Sue Townsend’s books. The unique thing was that those books are written like diaries or journal entries. While I don’t think that there’s anything inherently wrong with the first person perspective in a novel, it has to be done right, which is … Continue reading Simon of Space<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}