{"id":224126,"date":"2022-03-16T09:45:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T09:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/editor-s-notebook-the-waiting-trap"},"modified":"2022-03-16T09:45:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T09:45:24","slug":"editor-s-notebook-the-waiting-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/editor-s-notebook-the-waiting-trap","title":{"rendered":"Editor’s Notebook: The waiting trap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago, my wife read “Waiting” by Ha Jin. She reads more than I do, and whenever she finishes a book I ask her about the plot and the writing style, what she did and didn’t like, and what she thought of the ending. That time, she looked gloomy as she set the book down. After pausing for a few seconds, she said something like, “It’s so sad – to spend your whole life just waiting.” Although my wife and I tend to have different literary tastes, sometimes if she really likes something I’ll read it when she’s done and vice versa. Over the years she’s given me “The Elegance of the Hedgehog,” “Little Fires Everywhere,” “The Stand,” and others I’m grateful to have read. But it’s been more than 20 years since she read “Waiting,” and even though it seems like my kind of novel I have yet to pull it from the shelf. There are few things in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Years ago, my wife read “Waiting” by Ha Jin. She reads more than I do, and whenever she finishes a book I ask her about the plot and the writing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1],"tags":[288,90,19],"class_list":["post-224126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature","category-news","tag-animation","tag-books-literature","tag-entertainment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}