{"id":9067,"date":"2021-07-25T08:55:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T08:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=9067"},"modified":"2021-07-25T08:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T08:59:01","slug":"a-chekhovian-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2021\/07\/a-chekhovian-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chekhovian scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across this short exchange in the comments section of a post on the Ten Year Reading List<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n

\"question<\/p>\n

Amy has yet to reply to Ben’s question, which left me with a number of questions.\u00a0 When I first read the exchange I thought Ben had lent the book and would like it returned.\u00a0 But after reading the exchange a second time I noted\u00a0that the book was given, which implies some kind of gift.\u00a0 So, perhaps Ben is merely curious and it would give him pleasure to know that Amy continues to gain insight and wisdom from such a classic work.<\/p>\n

Chekhov would know how to knock this up into a decent short story.<\/p>\n

Anyway, dear reader, I posted a comment:<\/p>\n

\"my<\/p>\n

I will keep you updated!<\/p>\n

Oh and I own a copy of Stephen Mitchell’s translation and really need to read it again some day.<\/p>\n

Postscript I<\/strong>: I can’t find my copy of the book, perhaps I lent it to Amy?\u00a0 The plot thickens!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chekhov would know how to knock this up into a decent short story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9072,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067\/revisions\/9072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}