{"id":122842,"date":"2019-12-11T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T13:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/11\/top-10-dinner-parties-in-fiction\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:40:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T13:40:13","slug":"top-10-dinner-parties-in-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=122842","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 dinner parties in fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Arthurian feasts to awkward moments with Ian McEwan and mealtime at the Macbeths, these miniature dramas are literary staples. Tuck inLife is full of stresses: death; divorce; disasters, natural and otherwise. But another stress under D in the dictionary of stresses is the Dinner Party. It\u2019s a bit like opening a restaurant, it\u2019s a bit like putting on a play, and it\u2019s all for the benefit of people who are our friends or colleagues but also our audience, our guinea pigs, our judges.There\u2019s so much that can go wrong: the food can be undercooked or overcooked \u2013 or perfectly cooked but not very good. The conversation can stall or it can turn into a competition or an argument or a shouting match. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/dec\/11\/top-10-dinner-parties-in-fiction\" target=\"_blank\">Top 10 dinner parties in fiction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Arthurian feasts to awkward moments with Ian McEwan and mealtime at the Macbeths, these miniature dramas are literary staples. Tuck inLife is full of stresses: death; divorce; disasters, natural and otherwise. But another stress under D in the dictionary of stresses is the Dinner Party. It\u2019s a bit like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}