{"id":67,"date":"2006-09-13T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/worldofpablo.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2009-11-23T19:47:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T14:17:33","slug":"misspent-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldofpablo.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/misspent-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Misspent Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, for a few, terrible minutes, I found myself possessing a copy of the <em>Da Vinci Code<\/em>. I wanted that about as much as a dose of the clap.<\/p>\n<p>The result of a bungled book-swap deal, I had to get rid of the damn thing as soon as possible. Two or three years ago, someone lent me a copy, and I squandered a couple of precious, precious hours enduring Dan Brown\u2019s obnoxious drivel when I should have been enjoying my otherwise excellent Spanish holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike critics who find fault with its crackpot history, ludicrous plot or even the \u2018controversial\u2019 religious content, I have no problems on that score. It\u2019s just the way Dan Brown mangles the English language to such an extent I could feel my IQ dropping as I moved from one page to the next. Yes, you guessed it. I didn\u2019t enjoy it much. Howard, my old Amarpurkashi parner-in-crime, writes a far more lucid critique <a href=\"http:\/\/johnheronproject.com\/pdf\/da_vinci_code_by_popular_demand.pdf\">here<\/a>. Read it. He\u2019s right on all counts.<\/p>\n<p>Those wasted hours I will never have again. They\u2019re gone for ever! Dan Brown, I want my life back! On my deathbed, I\u2019ll be cursing my misspent youth. Along with those bloody <em>Matrix<\/em> sequels, countless pointless trips to Selhurst Park and my one visit to Ipswich, the time I spent with the <em>Da Vinci Code<\/em> will go down in my personal history as yet one more monumental waste of time. And don\u2019t even get me started on <em>Dude, Where\u2019s My Car<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, for a few, terrible minutes, I found myself possessing a copy of the Da Vinci Code. I wanted that about as much as a dose of the clap. The result of a bungled book-swap deal, I had to get rid of the damn thing as soon as possible. Two or three years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldofpablo.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/misspent-youth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Misspent Youth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff-and-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofpablo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofpablo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofpablo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofpablo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofpablo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldofpablo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/worldofpablo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofpablo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofpablo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofpablo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}