{"id":193,"date":"2026-07-05T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/?p=193"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:56:11","slug":"letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The epistolatary novel is a well-used form from Clarissa (Richardson) to Excession (Banks), so, while I can&#8217;t (yet) see myself writing a whole novel in this style, I thought I might write a chapter in Sudden Deaths using the approach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Chas\/Sarah is exchanging letters with Thurloe as she is brought into play in the story, quite independently of Ben. I think Thurloe believes Ben may need a helping hand, but doesn&#8217;t want to display any lack of confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Not something I&#8217;ve tried before, so wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The epistolatary novel is a well-used form from Clarissa (Richardson) to Excession (Banks), so, while I can&#8217;t (yet) see myself writing a whole novel in this style, I thought I might write a chapter in Sudden Deaths using the approach. Chas\/Sarah is exchanging letters with Thurloe as she is brought into play in the story, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}