{"id":1625,"date":"2014-09-09T13:48:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T13:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2014-09-12T14:04:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T14:04:01","slug":"walking-the-social-animal-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Walking the Social Animal, part one"},"content":{"rendered":"

On my Facebook profile<\/strong><\/a> I’ve been nominated to list some of my favourite things.<\/p>\n

Fifteen films I never forget<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

Akira<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Ed Wood<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Wild At Heart<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Hero<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Mind Game<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Sexy Beast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Porco Rosso<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Once Upon a Time in the West<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Men in Black<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Delicatessen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Finding Nemo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Black Cat White Cat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Life Aquatic<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Speed Racer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

-and, hell yes-<\/p>\n

The Abominable Dr. Phibes<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ten Favourite Books<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stone Junction by Jim Dodge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Iron Man by Ted Hughes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

True Grit by Charlies Portis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Burning Your Boats (collected short stories) by Angela Carter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

-and-<\/p>\n

The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The books list was harder than the film one. To discover another four hundred and ninety(!) books I love, check\u00a0my LibraryThing profile<\/strong><\/a>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On my Facebook profile I’ve been nominated to list some of my favourite things. Fifteen films I never forget: Akira Ed Wood Wild At Heart Hero Mind Game Sexy Beast Porco Rosso Once Upon a Time in the West Men in Black Delicatessen Finding Nemo Black Cat White Cat The Life Aquatic Speed Racer -and, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa","category-try-this-its-brilliant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}