{"id":1153,"date":"2016-03-10T17:44:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T17:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2016-03-10T17:44:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T17:44:58","slug":"no-booker-prize-for-william-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/no-booker-prize-for-william-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"No Booker Prize for William Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Murphy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wombatsdigit.com\/b\/\">tale of time machines and tussles<\/a> has not, I&#8217;m afraid, <a href=\"http:\/\/themanbookerprize.com\/news\/man-booker-international-prize-2016-longlist-announced\">been selected for the Man Booker International Prize long list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1154\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1154\" src=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NYTimesList-300x160.png\" alt=\"On the list!\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the list!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I know, I know. Stop weeping, please. Especially on the train, like that. People will stare. They&#8217;ll wonder. So dry your tears, wrestle in those last few body-shuddering sobs. It&#8217;ll be okay. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wombatsdigit.com\/b\/\">The book&#8217;s<\/a> not even published yet, so you couldn&#8217;t expect the Booker Prize folks to add it to the long list.<\/p>\n<p>Could 2017 be our year? 2018?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Murphy&#8217;s tale of time machines and tussles has not, I&#8217;m afraid, been selected for the Man Booker International Prize long list. I know, I know. Stop weeping, please. Especially on the train, like that. People will stare. They&#8217;ll wonder. So dry your tears, wrestle in those last few body-shuddering sobs. It&#8217;ll be okay. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}