{"id":1400,"date":"2011-09-15T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T09:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2013-11-25T18:12:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T10:12:27","slug":"asshole-learned-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2011\/09\/asshole-learned-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Be An Asshole, And Other Things We Learned From Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/murakami-asshole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/murakami-asshole-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"murakami asshole\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" style=\"margin-right:10px;\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1401\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m currently reading Murakami Haruki&#8217;s novel, <strong>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle<\/strong>. As regular readers of The Chaos Factory know, I&#8217;m a <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2008\/12\/19\/norwegian-wood-came-up-on-random-play-as-i-was-writing-this-suggesting-that-either-life-is-not-random-or-i-spent-a-long-time-to-finish-this-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">big fan<\/a>, and his latest novel is so good I&#8217;m ready to write a review and I&#8217;m only halfway through. Read this book. Or anything else by Murakami. You won&#8217;t regret it.<\/p>\n<p>This one is a modern detective noir thriller, except nothing really happens. The hero does lay at the bottom of the well for three days, reflecting on the emptiness of his life, but I don&#8217;t know if that actually qualifies as a happening. Either way, it&#8217;s more exciting than a recent M. Night Shyamalan movie of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you don&#8217;t read any of his novels, please take Murakami&#8217;s advice and don&#8217;t feel sorry for yourself. There are enough assholes in the world already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading Murakami Haruki&#8217;s novel, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. As regular readers of The Chaos Factory know, I&#8217;m a big fan, and his latest novel is so good I&#8217;m ready to write a review and I&#8217;m only halfway through. Read this book. Or anything else by Murakami. You won&#8217;t regret it. This one is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[1225,127,945,576,1565,1564,1563,1566,1567],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novel","tag-asshole","tag-book-review","tag-detective","tag-m-night-shyamalan","tag-murakami-huraki","tag-noir","tag-the-happening","tag-the-wind-up-bird-chronicle","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}