{"id":1382,"date":"2004-10-03T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-03T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2004-10-03T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-03T21:39:00","slug":"1382","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">&#8220;A book review generally carries the implicit premise that the reviewer somehow sees the book, its strengths and weaknesses, more clearly than its author does.&#8221; &#8211; Brian Morton in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/features\/booksmags\/ny-bkroth1003,0,2460583.story\" title=\"Memories of the Lindbergh administration\">review<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0618509283\/qid=1096839630\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_csp_1\/002-9402175-7415252?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\" title=\"The Plot Against America\">Philip Roth&#8217;s new novel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given all the press the book&#8217;s been getting, I guess it&#8217;s only a matter of time before I read it. Of course, I should probably first finish reading the dozens of other books I&#8217;ve got lined up on my shelf &#8212; including the last hundred or so pages of that <i>other<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0375701427\/qid=1096839630\/sr=8-2\/ref=pd_csp_2\/002-9402175-7415252?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\" title=\"American Pastoral\">Roth novel<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A book review generally carries the implicit premise that the reviewer somehow sees the book, its strengths and weaknesses, more clearly than its author does.&#8221; &#8211; Brian Morton in his review of Philip Roth&#8217;s new novel. Given all the press the book&#8217;s been getting, I guess it&#8217;s only a matter of time before I read &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1382\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}