{"id":28017,"date":"2026-11-04T14:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=28017"},"modified":"2026-11-04T14:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:19:38","slug":"omon-ra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipv6.wehle.lt\/wp\/?p=28017","title":{"rendered":"Omon Ra"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Omon is not a particularly common name, and perhaps not the best there is. It was my father&#8217;s idea. He worked in the police all his life and wanted me to be a policeman too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Listen to me, Ommy,&#8221; he used to say to me when he&#8217;d been drinking, &#8220;if you join the police, with a name like that&#8230; then if you join the Party&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Victor Pelevin, <em>Omon Ra<\/em>, (London: Harbord Publishing Limited, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">1994), 7<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The protagonist son receiving an unusual name is also how <em>Generation P<\/em> starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omon is not a particularly common name, and perhaps not the best there is. It was my father&#8217;s idea. He worked in the police all his life and wanted me to be a policeman too. &#8220;Listen to me, Ommy,&#8221; he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ipv6.wehle.lt\/wp\/?p=28017\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wpgpxmaps_activity":[],"class_list":["post-28017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipv6.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipv6.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipv6.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipv6.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipv6.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ipv6.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28018,"href":"https:\/\/ipv6.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017\/revisions\/28018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipv6.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipv6.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipv6.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28017"},{"taxonomy":"wpgpxmaps_activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipv6.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpgpxmaps_activity&post=28017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}