{"id":1629,"date":"2007-10-24T17:51:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2007-10-24T17:51:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T20:51:23","slug":"wolkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1629","title":{"rendered":"Wolkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">L<\/span>ast week, Dutch author Jan Wolkers died (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jan_Wolkers\">Wikipedia on Wolkers<\/a>, warning: possibly NSFW because of a picture of author posing with a bare-naked lady). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nu.nl\/news\/1286970\/10\/Jan_Wolkers_is_voor_niemand_echt_dood.html#\">He was buried today<\/a> (warning: Dutch language alert) in what newspapers call a well-attended funeral.\n<\/p>\n<p>I mention Wolkers here because he was mandatory reading material in Dutch literature classes: His most famous work, of course being, &#8216;Turks Fruit&#8217; (&#8216;Turkish Delight&#8217;) eventually made it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0070842\/\">big screen in 1973<\/a>, directed by Paul Verhoeven. The book (written in 1969) crosses plenty of boundaries, from morals, sexual topics to cancer (a topic that was literally a taboo to discuss in the Sixties). It&#8217;s an excellent book, though: I always thought &#8216;Turkish Delight&#8217; to be the classic example of a book that just didn&#8217;t need to be filmed. After all, the lively acting of the two leading actors (Hauers, Van Der Ven) in the movie quite distract&#8230; Oh wait: <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=cute+kitties&#038;hl=en&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;hs=Nj7&#038;um=1&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=images&#038;ct=title\">CUTE KITTIES<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Dutch author Jan Wolkers died (Wikipedia on Wolkers, warning: possibly NSFW because of a picture of author posing with a bare-naked lady). He was buried today (warning: Dutch language alert) in what newspapers call a well-attended funeral. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1629\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[190,139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}