{"id":5642,"date":"2010-11-05T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2010\/11\/05\/the-petting-zoo-by-jim-carroll\/"},"modified":"2010-11-05T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:43:12","slug":"the-petting-zoo-by-jim-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/11\/05\/the-petting-zoo-by-jim-carroll\/","title":{"rendered":"The Petting Zoo by Jim Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;\" alt=\"image\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/wpid-1288992775_picsay-1288992775.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh boy have I found a great book!&nbsp; Poet Jim Carroll was finishing this thing up when he passed away in 2009.&nbsp; I have only read 73 pages so far but I recognize this as one of the greatest novels I have ever read.&nbsp; A New York painter reacts strongly to some paintings by Velazquez, stumbles into Central Park and winds up in the looney bin where he finds some time to think straight.&nbsp; Simple and magnificent.&nbsp; What a damn great writer!&nbsp; I think this will actually be the first novel I write a review of.&nbsp; Now back to reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh boy have I found a great book!&nbsp; Poet Jim Carroll was finishing this thing up when he passed away in 2009.&nbsp; I have only read 73 pages so far but I recognize this as one of the greatest novels I have ever read.&nbsp; A New York painter reacts strongly to some paintings by Velazquez, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,78],"tags":[2500,1400,2482,121,2496],"class_list":["post-5642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-literature","tag-books","tag-jim-carroll","tag-literature","tag-novel","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}