{"id":61,"date":"2006-08-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=61"},"modified":"2006-08-31T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T15:00:00","slug":"murakami-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2006\/08\/murakami-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Murakami Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of late, I have been obsessed with the novels of Haruki Murakami.&nbsp; So far I&#8217;ve read five of his novels, plus a collection of short stories.&nbsp; The latest was <em>Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World<\/em>.&nbsp; As with every one of his novels so far, I wasn&#8217;t disappointed at all.&nbsp; This one has a bit of a sci-fi bent to it, however I wouldn&#8217;t classify this as a sci-fi novel.&nbsp; I hesitate to go to much into the details of the book, as I think its best to discover Murakami on one&#8217;s own.&nbsp; One of the things that amazes me about Murakami&#8217;s work, is that each novel is wonderful and amazing in its own special way.&nbsp; While there are definately themes that are constant throughout, they at least feel like they are being used in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the things I like about Murakami are: music plays a big part in the lives of his characters.&nbsp; his novels are full of love, spirituality and encourages us to seek out the connections with others.&nbsp; There is room for the reader inside his stories.&nbsp; It is both simple and complex at the same time.&nbsp; Often it feels like a dream, that you could just get lost in for all eternity.&nbsp; And sometimes, you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of late, I have been obsessed with the novels of Haruki Murakami.&nbsp; So far I&#8217;ve read five of his novels, plus a collection of short stories.&nbsp; The latest was Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.&nbsp; As with every one of his novels so far, I wasn&#8217;t disappointed at all.&nbsp; This one has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2006\/08\/murakami-madness\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[338,528],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reading","tag-murakami","tag-reading","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}