{"id":2650,"date":"2011-07-02T20:18:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/02\/a_barbara_pym_m\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T03:10:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T08:10:11","slug":"a_barbara_pym_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/02\/a_barbara_pym_m\/","title":{"rendered":"A Barbara Pym moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cTo say that a moment<\/strong> is \u2018very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbara-pym.org\">Barbara Pym<\/a>\u2019 is to say that it is a moment of self-observed, poignant acceptance of the modesty of one\u2019s circumstances, of one\u2019s peripheral position. A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barbara_Pym\">Barbara Pym<\/a> moment also occurs when one realises that for those whom one is observing, one will never be an object of love. Tolerant affection, perhaps, but never deep, passionate love. Indeed, one is not really entitled to expect such an emotion, although it is ennobling, some say, to observe it in others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/apr\/05\/featuresreviews.guardianreview30\">Alexander McCall Smith<\/a>, about <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Excellent_Women\">Excellent Women<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo say that a moment is \u2018very Barbara Pym\u2019 is to say that it is a moment of self-observed, poignant acceptance of the modesty of one\u2019s circumstances, of one\u2019s peripheral position. A Barbara Pym moment also occurs when one realises that for those whom one is observing, one will never be an object of love. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/02\/a_barbara_pym_m\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Barbara Pym moment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77073,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/77073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}