{"id":1244,"date":"2009-07-17T18:02:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T18:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2011-11-10T18:36:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T00:36:56","slug":"short_stories_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/07\/short_stories_e.html","title":{"rendered":"Short stories: Emerald City, by Jennifer Egan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read Egan&#8217;s (fairly) recent book &#8220;The Keep&#8221; right before I moved all my book thoughts over to this page (see it right at the top of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/readin.html\">the old readin page<\/a>), but I think this collection was published well before that novel.<\/p>\n<p>I thought these were great.  Unexpected and tense.  The main characters are often in moments of conflict or deception.  Very different from each other.  And all very finely detailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Egan&#8217;s (fairly) recent book &#8220;The Keep&#8221; right before I moved all my book thoughts over to this page (see it right at the top of the old readin page), but I think this collection was published well before &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/07\/short_stories_e.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}