{"id":837,"date":"2007-03-21T22:11:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T02:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/i-could-wake-up-to-that\/"},"modified":"2007-03-21T22:12:58","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T02:12:58","slug":"i-could-wake-up-to-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/i-could-wake-up-to-that\/","title":{"rendered":"I could wake up to that"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I maintain that the ne plus ultra<\/em>Yes, I think I am prepared to make a case that these audiobooks are “better” in some sense than the printed form. It’s a very rare argument.<\/footnote> form of Wodehouse<\/a>‘s Jeeves & Wooster<\/a> stories are the Jonathan Cecil<\/a> unabridged readings from Audio Partners<\/a>, the voice I hear in my mind when I think of Jeeves<\/a> speaking is Stephen Fry<\/a>‘s. Certainly he’s created a visual icon:<\/p>\n

\"Stephen<\/p>\n

That’s why I think the notion of the VOCO clock<\/a>, a clock that awakes you with Fry’s voice speaking one of fifty or so different Jeevesian lines is terribly amusing. (Of course I also think Fry being involved in something so obviously crass and commercial is kind of funny in its own right–it does rather clash with his image.)<\/p>\n

Your horoscope is promising very considerable profit and equal quantities of pleasure. Unlikely as this may currently appear, the world merely requires your presence for the process to begin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think I’d rather wake up to that than to Don Connolly<\/a>, yup. (If you click through to the site, you can hear several samples, including the one quoted above.)<\/p>\n

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While I maintain that the ne plus ultraYes, I think I am prepared to make a case that these audiobooks are “better” in some sense than the printed form. It’s a very rare argument. form of Wodehouse‘s Jeeves & Wooster stories are the Jonathan Cecil unabridged readings from Audio Partners, the voice I hear in my mind when I think… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-one-and-done","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-dv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}