{"id":10252,"date":"2006-08-05T19:18:38","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T23:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/08\/05\/10252.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:14","slug":"mouse-at-fifty-not-at-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/08\/05\/mouse-at-fifty-not-at-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouse at Fifty, not at Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I read in the New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/05\/arts\/05arts.html\">Arts, Briefly<\/a> that Armistead Maupin&#8217;s next book, <cite>Michael Tolliver Lives<\/cite>, will be out next year. I thought I&#8217;d pass that along for those who want to know.\n<p>Your Humble Blogger is ambivalent (there&#8217;s a surprise). On one hand, I <I>like<\/I> Michael Tolliver. I&#8217;d even go so far as to say that I miss Michael Tolliver. I am looking forward to finding out what he&#8217;s been up to these last years. On the other hand, returning to a world created in his youth is often (I know, not always, but often) a sign of expiring creative energy. Or at least it&#8217;s a disappointment: the Stella Gibbons of <cite>Conference at Cold Comfort Farm<\/cite> has different concerns from the Stella Gibbons who wrote the original, and her point that you can&#8217;t go home again (if that was her point) was scarcely what I wanted from a return to Howling, Sussex. Or the author decides to turn the whole thing on its head, which is even less welcome.\n<p>Still, Michael Tolliver Lives! That&#8217;s a relief.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian. \n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read in the New York Times Arts, Briefly that Armistead Maupin\u2019s next book, Michael Tolliver Lives, will be out next year. I thought I\u2019d pass that along for those who want to know. Your Humble Blogger is ambivalent (there\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nytimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17786,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions\/17786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}