{"id":731,"date":"2008-03-09T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2008-03-09T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T14:12:00","slug":"i-say-holmes-how-do-you-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"I say, Holmes. How Do You Do It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m realizing I didn&#8217;t really flesh this out yesterday, so allow me to expand.  One of things I was really into as a kid was Victorian adventure literature.  Yes, I know this makes me a weirdo.<\/p>\n<p>From the best I can remember, it started with Robert Louis Stevenson&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Kidnapped!<\/span>.  After getting a taste, I went on to devour the more accessible titles in the genre.  The complete Sherlock Holmes, much of Poe, the biggies from Wells and Stevenson, even a smattering of Verne. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to figure what drew me to these books.  Why didn&#8217;t I read, say, Star Wars novels or what little young adult fiction existed at the time?  Why century-old books?<\/p>\n<p>I maintain that the written English word reached the zenith of its grammatical quality in the late 1800&#8217;s.  After that, the modernists came in and stripped it of all complexity, applying the factory-manager&#8217;s tenets to literature.  Streamline it, do more with less, function before form.  Imagine if poor Tennyson had been born in 1930.<\/p>\n<p>A combination of the challenging language and the exciting subject matter made this stuff perfect for a young Alex.  And did it affect who I am as a person.  Take a look at my apartment and you can tell me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m realizing I didn&#8217;t really flesh this out yesterday, so allow me to expand. One of things I was really into as a kid was Victorian adventure literature. Yes, I know this makes me a weirdo. From the best I can remember, it started with Robert Louis Stevenson&#8217;s Kidnapped!. After getting a taste, I went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}