{"id":18900,"date":"2016-01-03T13:51:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T12:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18900"},"modified":"2016-01-03T13:52:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T12:52:51","slug":"have-you-ever-read-war-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18900","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever read &#8220;War And Peace&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, neither have I &#8211; although from somewhere I do have a copy of Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s mammoth novel on my bookshelves. My copy of the book is a 1967 edition and runs to 1,344 pages. I can&#8217;t imagine ever reading the book &#8211; at my age, I&#8217;m reluctant to start a long work in case I don&#8217;t finish it.<\/p>\n<p>But I did once see a \u00a0film version of &#8220;War And Peace&#8221;. It was the 1966 Russian movie directed by\u00a0Sergey Bondarchuk. I viewed this eight-hour epic in a single sitting in a cinema (but thankfully it was dubbed). I remember very little except some battle scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Now I will see the television version of &#8220;War And Peace&#8221; which will start being broadcast by the BBC this evening and consists of six one-hour episodes. However, I will record the series and try to watch all the episodes in a couple of sittings to help me follow the plot.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile I&#8217;ve come across someone who has not only read &#8220;War And Peace&#8221;, but consumed it <em>four<\/em> times. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2016\/jan\/03\/why-war-and-peace-stands-the-test-of-time\">this article<\/a>, Sarah Hughes explains how, each time she has read this huge novel, she has seen it in a different light with different characters coming to the fore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, neither have I &#8211; although from somewhere I do have a copy of Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s mammoth novel on my bookshelves. My copy of the book is a 1967 edition and runs to 1,344 pages. I can&#8217;t imagine ever reading the book &#8211; at my age, I&#8217;m reluctant to start a long work in case [&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-18900","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\/18900","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=18900"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18907,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18900\/revisions\/18907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}