{"id":1104,"date":"2013-07-26T18:16:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T18:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/?page_id=1104"},"modified":"2014-09-06T22:25:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:25:52","slug":"july-27-aifrics-short-story-published-in-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/?page_id=1104","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;9.24 in the Chocolate Lounge&#8221; published 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/fictions-for-our-times-video-1.1476028\">Legends of the Fall<\/a>: fiction on finance in The Irish Times<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/?attachment_id=1510\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1510\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0803-150x117.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0803\" width=\"252\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0803-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0803-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0803-1024x800.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8220;9.24 in the Chocolate Lounge&#8221; is the title of my story, published \u00a0the Irish Times. It re-imagines the early hours of November 28 2010 when the late Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, was on his way to Brussels to sign the bailout agreement for the Irish banks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;These are not the stories we carry on the news or business pages, though they breathe some of the same air. They are not reports of the doings of politicians or technocrats, though they often reflect on the absurdities inherent in much of that activity. They are not journalism: unlike journalists, creative writers are free to exaggerate reality, as Aifric Campbell does in today\u2019s brilliant reimagining of a moment in the saga of the bailout, or to delve far beneath its surface.<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Fintan O&#8217;Toole, Irish Times<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.irishtimes.com\/services\/player\/bcpid1795919259001?bckey=AQ~~,AAABogn1yyk~,LkRilRH4ked-KiuAGufxuwxBRihpFiRS&amp;bctid=2566705976001\"><strong>WATCH THE VIDEO INTRO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legends of the Fall: fiction on finance in The Irish Times &#8220;9.24 in the Chocolate Lounge&#8221; is the title of my story, published \u00a0the Irish Times. It re-imagines the early hours of November 28 2010 when the late Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, was on his way to Brussels to sign the bailout agreement for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1104\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}