{"id":2169,"date":"2021-03-10T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2021-03-10T17:37:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:37:19","slug":"review-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-by-john-le-carre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-by-john-le-carre\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carr\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This book is a masterpiece &#8211; and not the only masterpiece that John le Carr\u00e9 ever wrote.  Read it now, and then think about all the other books about British spies you&#8217;ve ever read.  Le Carr\u00e9 invented an entirely new genre of fiction and in the character of George Smiley, one of the great characters in English literature.  I will shortly be reading the other two books that are, together with this, considered to be the &#8220;Smiley vs Karla&#8221; trilogy.  I cannot wait; he is that good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a masterpiece &#8211; and not the only masterpiece that John le Carr\u00e9 ever wrote. Read it now, and then think about all the other books about British spies you&#8217;ve ever read. Le&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}