{"id":65,"date":"2003-11-05T10:17:54","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T10:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/?p=65"},"modified":"2003-11-05T10:17:54","modified_gmt":"2003-11-05T10:17:54","slug":"pet-theory-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Pet theory #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a number of pet theories about a variety of subjects.  One of them is about the book <i><font color=\"blue\">House<\/font> of Leaves<\/i>.  Last time I was in Chicago I wandered down to the little coffee shop in the library and they were playing Poe&#8217;s <i>Haunted<\/i>, which reminded me of the book, which Andy and I read a couple of years ago.  It&#8217;s one of those books that leave a lot of questions unanswered and loose ends untied-up, and hence lends itself to pet theories.  Here&#8217;s mine (spoiler, perhaps):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe entire book is written by Johnny Truant&#8217;s mother.  Her son Johnny died as a baby.  There is a reference someplace in the book to an accident in which the baby is injured, perhaps by the mother on purpose.  It&#8217;s implied, since Truant is the narrator of the book, that he recovered, and that the mother later went insane and writes letters to her son which are incorporated into the book.  I think the baby died, the mother already was or then became a paranoid schizophrenic and made up the whole book, her son&#8217;s life as an adult and his encounters with the Navidson story.  This would explain some parallels between the letters and other parts of the book&#8211;common misspellings etc; and also Johnny&#8217;s last name which probably isn&#8217;t his real one.  It&#8217;s been a while since I read the book so can&#8217;t remember any other specifics, but I had it all schemed out at one time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a number of pet theories about a variety of subjects. One of them is about the book House of Leaves. Last time I was in Chicago I wandered down to the little coffee shop in the library and they were playing Poe&#8217;s Haunted, which reminded me of the book, which Andy and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingpoint.com\/michele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}