{"id":2434,"date":"2010-09-01T17:41:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T17:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2010\/09\/barry-the-book-eater-by-lauren-coupe\/"},"modified":"2010-09-01T17:41:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T17:41:05","slug":"barry-the-book-eater-by-lauren-coupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2010\/09\/barry-the-book-eater-by-lauren-coupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry the Book Eater, by Lauren Coupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div>The stories of personal relationships reveal the often hidden iconography of many Surrealist artworks and help us understand the Surrealists&#8217; highly referential objects. This story, however, does none of that. Instead, we are plunged into an almost too personal world of obsession and unresolved tensions, in which laughter is one hairline crack away from insanity.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Barry The Book Eater is a very short book, and after reading it several times, one realises that it must be so, for anything more would possibly be just too dangerous for the normal mind to contemplate.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Buy it while it&#8217;s .<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/deanwhitbread\/bH3hcnKAkwpUaW0yIHzbWT2bm2pECCr0w8dy8wuRw4JEL9bpKUlALIhbAXEM\/no_bazza.jpg\" width=\"476\" height=\"355\"\/> <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/deanwhitbread.co.uk\/barry-the-book-eater-by-lauren-coupe\">Dean Whitbread<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stories of personal relationships reveal the often hidden iconography of many Surrealist artworks and help us understand the Surrealists&#8217; highly referential objects. This story, however, does none of that. Instead, we are plunged into an almost too personal world of obsession and unresolved tensions, in which laughter is one hairline crack away from insanity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}