{"id":996,"date":"2009-06-04T23:28:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T23:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=996"},"modified":"2009-06-04T23:28:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T23:28:58","slug":"making-a-sensational-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/06\/04\/making-a-sensational-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a sensational novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chesterton, in dealing with paganism and pantheism, makes this comment in passing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Indeed it is only too easy\u00a0 to forget that there is a thrill in theism. A novel in which a number of separate characters all turned out to be the same character would certainly be a sensational novel. It is so with the idea that sun and tree and river and the disguises of one god and not of many.<\/p>\n<p>-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, p.98<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow, a sensational novel where it turns out that several characters were the same one!<\/p>\n<p>The most excellent example of this ever is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0380679914\/\">The Westing Game<\/a>, a wonderful young adult mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the spoiler. It&#8217;s still worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chesterton, in dealing with paganism and pantheism, makes this comment in passing: Indeed it is only too easy\u00a0 to forget that there is a thrill in theism. A novel in which a number of separate characters all turned out to be the same character would certainly be a sensational novel. It is so with the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/06\/04\/making-a-sensational-novel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making a sensational novel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}