{"id":20212,"date":"2016-08-14T11:43:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20212"},"modified":"2016-08-14T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:43:21","slug":"word-of-the-day-bildungsroman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20212","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: Bildungsroman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this word for the first time as a comment on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/My-Brilliant-Friend-Elena-Ferrante\/dp\/1609450787\/ref=pd_cp_14_1?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=7T4C2GZTWQWC0W8M4396\">&#8220;My Brilliant Friend&#8221;<\/a><\/em>, the first of the four Neapolitan novels by Italian writer Elena Ferrante. My summer project is to read the whole series.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that the German word is a term of literary criticism referring to a novel of formation, education or coming-of-age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this word for the first time as a comment on &#8220;My Brilliant Friend&#8221;, the first of the four Neapolitan novels by Italian writer Elena Ferrante. My summer project is to read the whole series. I learned that the German word is a term of literary criticism referring to a novel of formation, [&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-20212","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\/20212","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=20212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20214,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20212\/revisions\/20214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}