{"id":772,"date":"2026-08-03T06:28:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/am-i-68-69-irvine-welsh-on-growing-old-getting-clean-bashing-out-his-new-novel-and-flirting-with-guns-irvine-welsh-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T06:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:28:25","slug":"am-i-68-69-irvine-welsh-on-growing-old-getting-clean-bashing-out-his-new-novel-and-flirting-with-guns-irvine-welsh-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/am-i-68-69-irvine-welsh-on-growing-old-getting-clean-bashing-out-his-new-novel-and-flirting-with-guns-irvine-welsh-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Am I 68? 69?\u2019 Irvine Welsh on growing old, getting clean, bashing out his new novel \u2013 and flirting with guns | Irvine Welsh | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe worst part is the psychological thing. Once [drug use] is in your emotional vocabulary as your get-out \u2013 \u2018I can stop feeling crap by doing this\u2019 \u2013 you have to reorder your thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>View image in fullscreen<br \/>\nLas Vegas, where Welsh\u2019s new novel is set. Photograph: Heather Diehl\/Getty Images<br \/>\nReordering thoughts isn\u2019t always easy, but, for Welsh, making the decision seems tantamount to its execution. He has a sort of self-applied strictness, which implies he is his own master, but also gives the impression of having to countermand his compulsions.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/aug\/03\/irvine-welsh-trainspotting-new-novel-can-nothing-save-us\">www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/aug\/03\/irvine-welsh-trainspotting-new-novel-can-nothing-save-us<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe worst part is the psychological thing. Once [drug use] is in your emotional vocabulary as your get-out \u2013 \u2018I can stop feeling crap by doing this\u2019 \u2013 you have to reorder your thinking.\u201d View image in fullscreen Las Vegas, where Welsh\u2019s new novel is set. Photograph: Heather Diehl\/Getty Images Reordering thoughts isn\u2019t always easy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,3,7],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-attention","tag-books","tag-consciousness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}