{"id":1303,"date":"2009-11-21T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T19:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/11\/nabokov_spoiler_alert\/"},"modified":"2009-11-21T11:15:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T19:15:41","slug":"nabokov_spoiler_alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/11\/nabokov_spoiler_alert.html","title":{"rendered":"Nabokov spoiler alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to be surprised by the plot of Nabokov&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Laughter-Dark-Vladimir-Nabokov\/dp\/0811216748\"><i>Laughter in the Dark<\/i><\/a> from 1938, skip the first two sentences.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Art is not plot. (Image <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/99\/04\/25\/specials\/nabokov.4.html\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nabokovyoung.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/nabokovyoung.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"347\" width=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to be surprised by the plot of Nabokov&#8217;s Laughter in the Dark from 1938, skip the first two sentences. Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}