{"id":97589,"date":"2020-12-14T12:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T17:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97589"},"modified":"2020-12-14T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:48:09","slug":"the-bbc-obituary-for-john-le-carre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97589","title":{"rendered":"The BBC Obituary for John le Carr\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John le Carr\u00e9 was the pseudonym of the author David Cornwell, judged by many to be the master of the spy novel.<\/p>\n<p>Meticulously researched, and elegantly written, many of his books reached a wider audience through TV and film adaptations.<\/p>\n<p>Le Carr\u00e9 stripped away the glamour and romance that were a feature of the James Bond novels and instead examined the real dark and seedy life of the professional spy.<\/p>\n<p>In the twilight world of le Carr\u00e9&#8217;s characters the distinction between good and bad, right and wrong was never that clear cut.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-19888446\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BBC News &#8211; Obituary: John le Carr\u00e9<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2AnOoBCgnj\">https:\/\/t.co\/2AnOoBCgnj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Caroline Liquori (@CarolineLiquori) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarolineLiquori\/status\/1338256345708064770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John le Carr\u00e9 was the pseudonym of the author David Cornwell, judged by many to be the master of the spy novel. Meticulously researched, and elegantly written, many of his books reached a wider audience through TV and film adaptations.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=97589\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,92,438,199,168,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97592,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97589\/revisions\/97592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}