{"id":14639,"date":"2014-05-16T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T09:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14639"},"modified":"2014-05-16T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T09:48:20","slug":"two-versions-of-the-early-life-of-author-jeanette-winterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14639","title":{"rendered":"Two versions of the early life of author Jeanette Winterson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not so long ago, I read the memoir of Jeanette Winterson which has the wonderful title <em>&#8220;Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?&#8221;<\/em> (2011). You can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Biographies#Why\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week, I finally got round to reading Winterson&#8217;s first novel, <em>&#8220;Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit&#8221;<\/em> (1985). You can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Oranges\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These books are a fascinating pair: the first is a biography but written with novelistic flourishes, while the second is a novel but clearly inspired by Winterson&#8217;s actual experiences of her emergent lesbianism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so long ago, I read the memoir of Jeanette Winterson which has the wonderful title &#8220;Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?&#8221; (2011). You can read my review here. This week, I finally got round to reading Winterson&#8217;s first novel, &#8220;Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit&#8221; (1985). You can read my review here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14639"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14668,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14639\/revisions\/14668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}