{"id":1050,"date":"2012-07-13T00:06:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T22:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2012-07-22T22:57:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T20:57:19","slug":"a-perfect-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Perfect Spy<\/strong>, by John Le Carr\u00e9. Published by Knopf in 1986, now available in a Penguin reprint.<\/p>\n<p>I read this book when it first came out and thought it a masterpiece. I re-read it recently with some trepidation, fearing I would be embarrassed by my earlier enthusiasm. I needn&#8217;t have worried: it remains a brilliant novel by any standards, and the character of Rick Pym, the protagonist&#8217;s father, is unforgettable.<\/p>\n<p>Buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Perfect-Spy-Novel-John-Carre\/dp\/0143119761\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1338308222&amp;sr=1-1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Perfect Spy, by John Le Carr\u00e9. Published by Knopf in 1986, now available in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[9,72],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recommended","tag-book","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}