{"id":458,"date":"2009-01-19T22:24:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T03:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2009-01-19T22:24:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T03:24:37","slug":"john-mortimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"John Mortimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never read any of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&#038;field-keywords=rumpole&#038;x=27&#038;y=21\">Rumpole<\/a> books, then you still have the chance to read one for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what I expected when I read my first one. I think I was waiting for some sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&#038;field-keywords=jeeves&#038;x=15&#038;y=19\">Jeeves story<\/a>, but with barristers and wigs.<\/p>\n<p>I love Wodehouse and Jeeves, but there is a limited time and place for that kind of mindless air-filled confection. Rumpole is also light and airy a lot of the time, but can be surprisingly dark all of a sudden. The legal and other problems are real, and Rumpole&#8217;s opinions are meaty and satisfyingly prickly.<\/p>\n<p>[And it&#8217;s set in today&#8217;s world, and it has cussing when appropriate, and it&#8217;s completely unlike Wodehouse in most important ways.]<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the last one has been written, and one copy sits (unread for the moment) on my bookshelf. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2009\/jan\/17\/obituary-john-mortimer\">John Mortimer is dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never read any of the Rumpole books, then you still have the chance to read one for the first time. I don&#8217;t know what I expected when I read my first one. I think I was waiting for some sort of Jeeves story, but with barristers and wigs. I love Wodehouse and Jeeves, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languagelit","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}