{"id":344,"date":"2006-12-25T23:11:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T23:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=344"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:01:21","slug":"the_constant_ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/the_constant_ga\/","title":{"rendered":"The Constant Gardener by John le Carr\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"200px-Constant_gardener.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/200px-Constant_gardener.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Page 403<\/strong><br \/>\nWe reach an age when our childhoods are no longer an excuse.<br \/>\n<strong>Page 446<\/strong><br \/>\nThey did this to me but I have remained who I am. I am tempered. I am able. Inside myself there&#8217;s an untouched man. If they came back now, and did everything to me again, they would never reach the untouched man. I&#8217;ve passed the exam I&#8217;ve been shirking all my life. I&#8217;m a graduate of pain.<br \/>\n<strong>Page 453 on Ghita taking her civil service entrance exam<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd somehow the very decision to sit the exam, though unsuccessful, released the reasoning behind it, which was that she was more at ease with herself joining the System than staying apart from it and achieving little beyond the partial gratification of her artistic impulses.<br \/>\n<strong>Page 454<\/strong><br \/>\nBetter to be inside the System and fighting it than outside the System, howling at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review in tabs\u2014excerpts I found noteworthy in this fictional account of the pharmaceutical industry&#8217;s plundering and ethics in Africa and a British diplomat trying to solve the mystery of his wife&#8217;s murder because of her involvement in exposing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}