{"id":4537,"date":"2008-08-02T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2017-11-10T15:17:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T21:17:46","slug":"it-would-shock-you-if-you-didnt-expect-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/02\/it-would-shock-you-if-you-didnt-expect-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It Would Shock You If You Didn&#8217;t Expect It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Teachout on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/2008\/08\/tt_hearing_is_believing.html\" target=\"_blank\">Raymond Chandler&#8217;s speaking voice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only one recording of Raymond Chandler&#8217;s speaking voice survives, a BBC interview conducted with Chandler in 1958 by none other than Ian Fleming. You can listen to it by going here. If you do so, you&#8217;ll be staggered to learn that the creator of Philip Marlowe sounds&#8230;well, wimpy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not if you&#8217;ve read any of his letters or his biography.  Fellow was a total anglophile prone to wearing gloves and not shaking hands because he thought it was barbaric.  That he sounds more Capote than Hemingway is not surprising at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Teachout on Raymond Chandler&#8217;s speaking voice: Only one recording of Raymond Chandler&#8217;s speaking voice survives, a BBC interview conducted with Chandler in 1958 by none other than Ian Fleming. You can listen to it by going here. If you do so, you&#8217;ll be staggered to learn that the creator of Philip Marlowe sounds&#8230;well, wimpy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17444,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions\/17444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}