{"id":3095,"date":"2006-07-18T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T14:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/07\/18\/tintin-key-to-modern-literature"},"modified":"2006-07-18T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T14:42:03","slug":"tintin-key-to-modern-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/07\/18\/tintin-key-to-modern-literature","title":{"rendered":"Tintin: Key To Modern Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?xml=\/arts\/2006\/07\/09\/bomcc02.xml&#038;sSheet=\/arts\/2006\/07\/09\/bomain.html\">Tom McCarthy<\/a> is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lambiek.net\/artists\/h\/herge.htm\">Herg\u00c3\u00a9<\/a> (creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tintin.com\/uk\/\">Tintin<\/a>) what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312141246\/002-6370783-9740858?redirect=true\">Ben Watson<\/a> is to Frank Zappa:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Herg\u00c3\u00a9&#8217;s writing, he would have us believe, presents a human tableau worthy of Balzac involving situations &#8216;managed with all the subtlety normally attributed to Jane Austen or Henry James&#8217;; his world is a place where &#8216;Moli\u00c3\u00a8re-style social comedy runs effortlessly into Dumas-style adventure with Conradian boxed narratives throughout which\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6volleys of Rabelaisian obscenities echo and boom.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Some<\/em> people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom McCarthy is to Herg\u00c3\u00a9 (creator of Tintin) what Ben Watson is to Frank Zappa: Herg\u00c3\u00a9&#8217;s writing, he would have us believe, presents a human tableau worthy of Balzac involving situations &#8216;managed with all the subtlety normally attributed to Jane &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/07\/18\/tintin-key-to-modern-literature\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-pop-cult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}