{"id":657,"date":"2009-02-25T20:15:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T20:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=657"},"modified":"2024-01-23T22:38:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T03:38:41","slug":"christie_elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2009\/02\/christie_elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie, Agatha: <cite>Elephants Can Remember<\/cite> (radio play)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d gotten so far behind in logging BBC radio play adaptations of Agatha Christie novels that I just gave up and stopped putting them on the blog. But I just finished <strong><cite>Elephants Can Remember<\/cite><\/strong>, an adaptation of the Poirot novel where a prospective mother-in-law asks Mrs. Oliver whether her god-daughter&#8217;s mother killed her father and then committed suicide, or was it the other way around? And I had to warn people that it contains not only an absolutely infuriating view of adoption, but a remarkably stupid position on nature v. nurture, not that any of the characters seem to notice. Emphatically not recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d gotten so far behind in logging BBC radio play adaptations of Agatha Christie novels that I just gave up and stopped putting them on the blog. But I just finished Elephants Can Remember, an adaptation of the Poirot novel where a prospective mother-in-law asks Mrs. Oliver whether her god-daughter&#8217;s mother killed her father and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2009\/02\/christie_elephants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christie, Agatha: <cite>Elephants Can Remember<\/cite> (radio play)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,6,111],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hercule-poirot","category-mystery","category-radio-plays","tag-christie-agatha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}