{"id":237,"date":"1998-10-26T18:02:41","date_gmt":"1998-10-27T02:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2024-07-21T10:04:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T14:04:57","slug":"kalki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/kalki\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that hollow, wind-swept feeling when you finish a good novel and everything in the world seems flat for a day or two? Especially if the book dumps you in a post-apocalyptic universe with blasted hopes and monkeys &#8212; ah, but I&#8217;ve said too much. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN%3D0141180374\/go2netA\/002-1444758-4534423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kalki<\/a><\/i> was my first introduction to Gore Vidal, and I must say I liked his stream-of-awareness narrative style combined with a pointed portrayal of international politics. Sexy, funny, frightening; I can&#8217;t recommend this book enough! [New York: Penguin]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that hollow, wind-swept feeling when you finish a good novel and everything in the world seems flat for a day or two? Especially if the book dumps you in a post-apocalyptic universe with blasted hopes and monkeys &#8212; ah, but I&#8217;ve said too much. Kalki was my first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}