{"id":1933,"date":"2012-01-08T16:29:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T22:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2012-01-08T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T22:29:43","slug":"what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-running-by-haruki-murakami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1933","title":{"rendered":"What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>81 in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?page_id=1287\">2011 book blogging challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the last book that I read in 2011.  It&#8217;s January 8, 2012, and I am finally starting to wrap up 2011.  That may be a little ahead of schedule for me.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-About-Running-Vintage-International\/dp\/0307389839\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1326059879&#038;sr=8-1\">What I Talk About When I Talk About Running<\/a> quite a bit.  This book is at least part of what has inspired me toward more exercise in 2012.  I wanted to share in the mental and emotional benefits Murakami found in running as well as in the physical benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The book also appeals to me because it is as much a book about how he writes as it is a book about how he runs.  The inner spirit required to run a marathon is basically the same spirit required to write a novel. I loved his attention to the parallels.<\/p>\n<p>I also appreciate the fact that he talks about his own most embarrassing times and his times when he&#8217;s felt the greatest sense of failure.  This is one of Japan&#8217;s and even the world&#8217;s most celebrated writers, yet there was something remarkably humble in his talk about his accomplishments.  <\/p>\n<p>Read it if you need some inspiration for either physical or mental tasks.  It&#8217;s an interesting story and fairly useful guidebook.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>81 in my 2011 book blogging challenge. This is the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}