{"id":257856,"date":"2007-11-15T19:53:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T19:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/11\/15\/memories-of-my-melancholy-sweethearts\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:10","slug":"memories-of-my-melancholy-sweethearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/11\/15\/memories-of-my-melancholy-sweethearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of My Melancholy Sweethearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s straight-laced censors are not known for their tolerance of sexually risque literature, so a book called <em>A Memory of My Melancholy Whores<\/em> was never likely to meet with their approval.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But in their determination to get Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez&#8217;s highly acclaimed work into the bookshops, local publishers hit on an audacious ruse &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,,2211690,00.html?gusrc=rss&#38;feed=10\">they sanitised its title<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As a result, the normally vigilant gaze of culture and Islamic guidance ministry officials was averted when a novel by the Nobel prize-winning author innocuously titled <em>Memories of My Melancholy Sweethearts<\/em> was submitted and accordingly authorised for publication.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s straight-laced censors are not known for their tolerance of sexually risque literature, so a book called A Memory of My Melancholy Whores was never likely to meet with their approval. But in their determination to get Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez&#8217;s highly acclaimed work into the bookshops, local publishers hit on an audacious ruse &#8211; they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136,8126,8086],"class_list":["post-257856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-gabriel-garcia-marquez","tag-iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361016,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257856\/revisions\/361016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}