{"id":1209,"date":"2008-11-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2008-11-28T23:51:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T07:51:31","slug":"bad-sex-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/reading\/authors\/bad-sex-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which author wrote these lines about a lover&#8217;s vagina?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[It] did not feel like Phyllis&#8217;s. Smoother, somehow simpler, its wetness less thick, less of a sauce, more of a glaze .\u00a0.\u00a0.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it was John Updike<em>; <\/em>he is in the running for the <a title=\"bad sex\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/nov\/20\/bad-sex-award-fiction\" target=\"_blank\">2008 Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction<\/a> award.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is overdue. He should have won in 1994 for his novel <em>Brazil.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which author wrote these lines about a lover&#8217;s vagina? [It] did not feel like Phyllis&#8217;s. Smoother, somehow simpler, its wetness less thick, less of a sauce, more of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}