{"id":1290,"date":"2014-06-29T08:35:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T08:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jcmeister.de\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2023-05-23T20:11:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T20:11:40","slug":"english-flann-obrien-the-third-policeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/english-flann-obrien-the-third-policeman\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Flann O&#8217;Brien, &#8220;The Third Policeman&#8221;<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!--:en--><br><!--:--><!--:de-->If ever you grow tired of pondering life&#8217;s miracles, read Flann O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s &#8220;The Third Policeman&#8221; (written 1939-1940; first published post-humously in 1966). It&#8217;ll re-instill in you an inexhaustable trust in the absurdity of being!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNever before had I believed or suspected that I had a soul but just then I knew I had. I knew also that my soul was friendly, was my senior in years and was solely concerned for my own welfare. For convenience I called him Joe. I felt a little reassured to know that I was not altogether alone. Joe was helping me.\u201d<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/15248.Flann_O_Brien\">Flann O&#8217;Brien<\/a>, <em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/3359269\">The Third Policeman<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/220px-Brian_ONolan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/220px-Brian_ONolan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1292\" title=\"220px-Brian_O'Nolan\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Flann O&#8217;Brien was one of the pseudonyms of Brian O&#8217;Nolan (<a title=\"Irish language\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irish_language\">Irish<\/a>: <em>Brian \u00d3 Nuall\u00e1in<\/em>; 5 October 1911 \u2013 1 April 1966)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a lot of exquisite &amp; hilarious quotes from the novel, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/3359269-the-third-policeman\">here<\/a>.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If ever you grow tired of pondering life&#8217;s miracles, read Flann O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s &#8220;The Third Policeman&#8221; (written 1939-1940; first published post-humously in 1966). It&#8217;ll re-instill in you an inexhaustable trust in the absurdity of being! \u201cNever before had I believed or suspected that I had a soul but just then I knew I had. I knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}