{"id":1449,"date":"2005-02-06T21:01:43","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T01:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2005-02-06T21:01:43","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T01:01:43","slug":"american-literature-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"American Literature (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around the second-hand bookshops of Walden on Saturday, I found an Alison Lurie novel I didn&#8217;t know existed. Other people might get that excited about the discovery of lost plays of Sophocles. I just want to say that <em>The Last Resort<\/em> is the most ruthlessly plotted of all her books; and that I have discovered where I go when I sleep &#8212; I model for her clever, pompous, self-pitying characters., There&#8217; really can&#8217;t have been anyone who writes so well and so cruelly about self-pity as Alison Lurie does. There is certainly no one who has made me laugh quite so loudly for so long.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around the second-hand bookshops of Walden on Saturday, I found an Alison Lurie novel I didn&#8217;t know existed. Other people might get that excited about the discovery of lost plays of Sophocles. I just want to say that The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}