{"id":10677,"date":"2020-06-09T08:35:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T06:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=10677"},"modified":"2020-06-17T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:35:38","slug":"milkman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=10677","title":{"rendered":"Milkman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\nprotagonist of <em>Milkman<\/em> is not a milkman. Nobody quite knows\nwhy he is called <em>Milkman<\/em>. There is also a real milkman, a\ncharacter who is gaining protagonism as the story develops. To\ndistinguish him from the other milkman, he is referred to as <em>real\nmilkman<\/em>. After some dramatic events, in which both milkmen are\naffected by acts of violence, it is revealed that the first milkman\nis called <em>milkman<\/em> because his name is <em>Milkman<\/em>. First,\nthe narrator is puzzled but then she starts thinking: <em>Butcher<\/em>\u2018s\na name, <em>Sexton<\/em>\u2018s a name. And so is <em>Weaver<\/em>, <em>Hunter<\/em>,\n<em>Roper<\/em>, <em>Cleaver<\/em>, <em>Player<\/em>, <em>Mason<\/em>, <em>Thatcher<\/em>,\n<em>Carver<\/em>, <em>Wheeler<\/em>, <em>Planter<\/em>, <em>Trapper<\/em>,\n<em>Teller<\/em>, <em>Doolittle<\/em>, <em>Pope<\/em> and <em>Nunn<\/em>. Why\nshouldn\u2018t <em>Milkman<\/em> be one? (Burns, Anna: <em>Milkman<\/em>.\nLondon: Faber &amp; Faber, 2018: 304)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The protagonist of Milkman is not a milkman. Nobody quite knows why he is called Milkman. There is also a real milkman, a character who is gaining protagonism as the story develops. To distinguish him from the other milkman, he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=10677\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10679,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions\/10679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}