{"id":3447,"date":"2015-03-11T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T17:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2015-03-11T09:34:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T17:34:42","slug":"adrift-in-a-sea-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3447","title":{"rendered":"adrift in a sea of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Donna Tartt&#8217;s <i>The Secret History<\/i> (1992), the narrator says or implies that the events happened many years ago; so I&#8217;ve been watching for details that date it.  Oprah Winfrey, whose show premiered in 1986, is mentioned; I think that&#8217;s the <i>terminus post quem<\/i>.  More than anything else I&#8217;ve been struck by names of cigarettes: Silva-Thin, Vantage, Kool.  Maybe these seem dated to me because I&#8217;ve been less exposed to tobacco advertising since ~1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Donna Tartt&#8217;s The Secret History (1992), the narrator says or implies that the events happened many years ago; so I&#8217;ve been watching for details that date it. Oprah Winfrey, whose show premiered in 1986, is mentioned; I think that&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3447\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}