{"id":1037,"date":"2005-09-15T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/09\/15\/lolita-is-fifty\/"},"modified":"2005-09-15T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T18:53:00","slug":"lolita-is-fifty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/15\/lolita-is-fifty\/","title":{"rendered":"Lolita is fifty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerve.com\/screeningroom\/books\/lolita\/\">Lolita is turning fifty<\/a> . I know that her character died, but I can&rsquo;t help but imagine her with a few varicose veins, a thicker waistline and some peach fuzz on her upper lip. She probably married a guy 20 years her senior who is no longer paying attention to her and who is now trying to get in the pants of a cute, 12 year-old neighbor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/dmg\/dmg.php?mediaURL=\/day\/20050914_day_lolita1&amp;mediaType=WM\">Lo<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/dmg\/dmg.php?mediaURL=\/day\/20050914_day_lolita1&amp;mediaType=WM\">Li<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/dmg\/dmg.php?mediaURL=\/day\/20050914_day_lolita1&amp;mediaType=WM\">Ta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now a middle-aged woman&rsquo;s name.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody gets old(er). Heh heh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more on Lolita&rsquo;s 50th, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4846479&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1032\">NPR&rsquo;s special section<\/a> with film excerpts and readings by Nabokov and Jeremy Irons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lolita is turning fifty . I know that her character died, but I can&rsquo;t help but imagine her with a few varicose veins, a thicker waistline and some peach fuzz on her upper lip. She probably married a guy 20 years her senior who is no longer paying attention to her and who is now&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/15\/lolita-is-fifty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lolita is fifty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}